Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH 1/3] cvs.eclass: Support EAPI 8, drop EAPI 6 and older

2021-10-03 Thread Ulrich Mueller
> On Sun, 03 Oct 2021, David Seifert wrote: > Those use cases don't necessitate keeping the eclass though? I don't see why possible removal of the eclass at some unknown time in the future should block improving it now. Ulrich signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH 1/3] cvs.eclass: Support EAPI 8, drop EAPI 6 and older

2021-10-03 Thread David Seifert
On Sun, 2021-10-03 at 12:30 +0200, Ulrich Mueller wrote: > > > > > > On Sun, 03 Oct 2021, Robin H Johnson wrote: > > > If they are not, I think it would be reasonable to consider removing > > CVS from the tree on 2022/01/01. > > I disagree. It is still useful as a package even if it hadn't any >

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH 1/3] cvs.eclass: Support EAPI 8, drop EAPI 6 and older

2021-10-03 Thread Ulrich Mueller
> On Sun, 03 Oct 2021, Robin H Johnson wrote: > If they are not, I think it would be reasonable to consider removing > CVS from the tree on 2022/01/01. I disagree. It is still useful as a package even if it hadn't any reverse dependencies. For example, it is needed when doing conversions of

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH 1/3] cvs.eclass: Support EAPI 8, drop EAPI 6 and older

2021-10-03 Thread Robin H. Johnson
Can we verify the consumers of this eclass are indeed still using CVS in the year 2021? If they are not, I think it would be reasonable to consider removing CVS from the tree on 2022/01/01. -- Robin Hugh Johnson Gentoo Linux: Dev, Infra Lead, Foundation Treasurer E-Mail : robb...@gentoo.org

[gentoo-dev] [PATCH 1/3] cvs.eclass: Support EAPI 8, drop EAPI 6 and older

2021-10-02 Thread Ulrich Müller
Signed-off-by: Ulrich Müller --- eclass/cvs.eclass | 17 - 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff --git a/eclass/cvs.eclass b/eclass/cvs.eclass index a8e5ee4cc9a0..2868cb31f317 100644 --- a/eclass/cvs.eclass +++ b/eclass/cvs.eclass @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ # @ECLASS: