On Tue, 2021-10-05 at 13:16 -0400, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On Tue, 2021-10-05 at 17:13 +0200, Michał Górny wrote: > > > > > 2. What happens to the LTS branch when the next EAPI is released? > > > > > > > I haven't really thought about it. Are you suggesting that we could > > bump 'master' Portage to newer EAPI earlier or...? > > > > I just mean that, a priori, the LTS branch won't be able to install > ebuilds that use the next EAPI. Backporting an entire EAPI doesn't seem > appropriate for a stable series; but maintaining an increasingly- > obsolete branch at that point doesn't make much sense either.
Ah, that makes sense. Indeed, I suppose a new EAPI will be a good point of switching master to LTS. -- Best regards, Michał Górny
