On Fri, 2 Sep 2016 18:13:20 +0200 Kristian Fiskerstrand <k...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> Hi Devs, > > I'm wondering whether it wouldn't make sense to require eclasses (or > strongly encourage) to include an explicit list of EAPIs it has been > tested for in order to ease testing when introducing new EAPIs. > > We have seen some issues already with EAPI6 bump related to get_libdir > and people updating EAPI in ebuild without properly testing the > inherited eclasses. having a whitelist in place and die if eclass is > not updated to handle it solves it. > > Thoughts? comments? cookies? threats? > Never liked to wait for a whole eclass update for a new eapi when I only use a couple functions from it that I have tested when updating an ebuild.
