Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Matt Turner <mattst88@g.o>
To: gentoo development <gentoo-dev@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: dev-python/*, python-maintained, py3.6-only, no-revdep
Date: Sat, 07 Mar 2020 20:26:52
Message-Id: CAEdQ38EjVuyXBH8kxGa9qadVpKDduo6GxuJKGgh7sq4sSj1Vyg@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: dev-python/*, python-maintained, py3.6-only, no-revdep by Jonas Stein
1 On Sat, Mar 7, 2020 at 12:17 PM Jonas Stein <jstein@g.o> wrote:
2 >
3 > On 07/03/2020 19.27, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
4 > >>>>>> On Sat, 07 Mar 2020, Michał Górny wrote:
5 > >
6 > >>> Just the ebuild being outdated doesn't sound like a sufficient reason
7 > >>> for removal of a package, at least not for those packages that install
8 > >>> applications for the end user.
9 > >
10 > >> The list is almost exclusively about dev-python/, i.e. packages that
11 > >> do not install end-user applications but Python modules.
12 > >
13 > > Like www-apps/nikola, for example?
14 > >
15 >
16 > Nikola is actively maintained and was recently updated.
17 > It works fine and has many users.
18 >
19 > Did you look into that package before hard masking?
20 > I see no problems with this package.
21 > https://github.com/getnikola/nikola/blob/master/setup.py
22 >
23 > Please undo the masking of fully working packages.
24
25 Christ guys. Just add python 3.7 support and unmask it.

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