On Mon, 16 Nov 2015 10:06:17 +0100
"Justin Lecher (jlec)" <j...@gentoo.org> wrote:

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> On 16/11/15 10:01, Alexis Ballier wrote:
> > On Fri, 13 Nov 2015 23:53:05 +0000 (UTC) "Michał Górny"
> > <mgo...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> >   
> >> commit:     ad4c142684afb096e8fff2937ae5c5c3385dd22e Author:
> >> Michał Górny <mgorny <AT> gentoo <DOT> org> AuthorDate: Fri Nov
> >> 13 18:46:33 2015 +0000 Commit:     Michał Górny <mgorny <AT>
> >> gentoo <DOT> org> CommitDate: Fri Nov 13 23:52:53 2015 +0000 
> >> URL: 
> >> https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=ad4c1426
> >> 
> >> autotools-{utils,multilib}.eclass: Ban for EAPI=6
> >> 
> >> Ban autotools-utils.eclass and dependant
> >> autotools-multilib.eclass for EAPI=6 to avoid them being
> >> accidentally enabled. The former eclass should be replaced with
> >> inline code, the latter with multilib-minimal.eclass.  
> > 
> > 
> > Not that I particularly like those eclasses, but I seem to have
> > missed the deprecation warnings for these. I hope you're planning
> > in submitting patches "fixing" consumers...  
> 
> Probably the developers should fix their ebuilds when they bump to
> EAPI=6. While I haven't looked at the change exactly, Michał announced
> it as a EAPI >= 6 Ban. So no backwards breakages expected.

Probably those that want to ban it should fix the(ir) tree so that
developers have no pain in bumping to eapi6?

While I agree we should move away from those eclasses, the "I decided
to throw the crap at other developers with eapi6 without deprecation
period" is a bit hard to grasp. Esp. when these eclasses were advertised
as the way to go not so long ago...

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