On Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 9:24 PM, Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> wrote: > Mike Gilbert posted on Sun, 16 Nov 2014 12:21:14 -0500 as excerpted: > >> At the same time, support for Python 3.2 will be removed from the >> python-r1 family of eclasses. This version no longer receives regular >> bug fixes, and is currently only receiving security updates. > > Problem: Gentooers are conditioned to consider -r1 a version indicator, > making "python-r1" the closest back-reference to which "This version" can > refer. At least here that was rather confusing, because on first parse > it looked as if python-r1 (the eclass family) is only getting security > updates, in which case why is python 3.2 being removed from it? > > Solution: Make explicit that it's python 3.2 that is security-update only. > > One possible rewrite (which also changes the order quite a bit and with > it the emphasis, don't know if that's desired but it appears to do the > job from here): > > Python 3.2, now security-update-only as it's nearing end-of-life, will be > dropped from the python-r1 family of eclasses at the same time.
It would be easier to just restate "Python 3.2" as the subject of the second sentence.
