On Sat, Dec 12, 2015 at 3:54 AM, Ulrich Mueller <u...@gentoo.org> wrote: >>>>>> On Fri, 11 Dec 2015, Mike Gilbert wrote: > >> It is worth noting that GLEP 42 makes no mention of EAPI, and >> current versions of portage do support slots in dependency atoms >> used in news items. > >> I guess it's a matter of documenting this somewhere. Where would >> that be? > > We should update GLEP 42 and introduce a News-Item-Format 1.1 that > supports EAPI 5 for dependency syntax. > > (This has come up several times in the past already, but for some > reason nobody is willing to take the initiative for updating the GLEP. > Everyone seems to be happy with a workaround for their own news item.)
Thank you. After skimming thought GLEP 1 to refresh my memory, I have filed bug 568068 to propose the change. https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=568068
