On Mon, 2020-03-23 at 14:00 -0500, William Hubbs wrote: > On Mon, Mar 23, 2020 at 07:36:13PM +0100, David Seifert wrote: > > On Mon, 2020-03-23 at 13:23 -0500, William Hubbs wrote: > > > Hey all, > > > > > > it has been brought to my attention that there have been several > > > backward-incompatible changes made to the python eclasses lately. > > > > > > It is true that everything in ::gentoo has been fixed along with the > > > changes to the eclasses; however, when a change like this goes into a > > > widely used eclass it breaks overlays with little to no notice; > > > especially since we do not require developers to be subscribed to this > > > mailing list. > > > > > > I do agree that overlay authors are on their own to fix things, but we > > > need to > > > find a way to notify them when a breaking change is going into a widely > > > used eclass and give them time to adjust their ebuilds. > > > > > > If the old way of doing things cannot be supported > > > along side the new way the correct path forward is a new version of the > > > eclass then a lastrites on the old version. That would give overlay > > > authors time to switch to the new eclass. > > > > > > If the old and new way can be supported in the same code base, a > > > reasonable way forward is to allow both ways to exist while ::gentoo is > > > migrated to the new code path then do the equivalent of a lastrites for > > > the old code path so overlay authors can adjust their ebuilds. > > > > > > Thoughts? > > > > > > William > > > > > > > All of this was announced with a 3 month timeout, using the right channels. > > Have > > you checked all python-related eclasses changes submitted to the ML? In this > > case, eqawarn would not have been possible, because the change involved > > dereferencing a variable. > > This is the change that broke us today. > > https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/message/aa45f4f86f9b865eb0fe7344d83a7258 > > Where is the three month timeout for it? > > Thanks, > > William >
Oh I thought you meant the python-single-r1 change from a month ago.
