On 2020-09-02 13:23, Sam James wrote: > > Please request stabilisation of your Python 3.8+ changes at the 30 days > point, or earlier if it’s a trivial revbump > (as new Python targets are equivalent to new USE flags, there is no real need > for a revbump unless doing other tidying > whilst there). >
New USE flags generally change dependencies (as is the case here), so a new revision ensures that people are forced to install the ebuild that supports python-3.8. Otherwise, you will eventually find a lot of people stuck unable to upgrade because they have an ebuild installed that only supports <=python-3.7, and were never prompted to install the copy that supports python-3.8.