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From: Jonas Stein <jstein@g.o>
To: 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 20:17:26
Message-Id: ec6bae29-7622-44ae-6a46-f69c703a1f08@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: dev-python/*, python-maintained, py3.6-only, no-revdep by Ulrich Mueller
1 On 07/03/2020 19.27, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
2 >>>>>> On Sat, 07 Mar 2020, Michał Górny wrote:
3 >
4 >>> Just the ebuild being outdated doesn't sound like a sufficient reason
5 >>> for removal of a package, at least not for those packages that install
6 >>> applications for the end user.
7 >
8 >> The list is almost exclusively about dev-python/, i.e. packages that
9 >> do not install end-user applications but Python modules.
10 >
11 > Like www-apps/nikola, for example?
12 >
13
14 Nikola is actively maintained and was recently updated.
15 It works fine and has many users.
16
17 Did you look into that package before hard masking?
18 I see no problems with this package.
19 https://github.com/getnikola/nikola/blob/master/setup.py
20
21 Please undo the masking of fully working packages.
22
23 --
24 Best,
25 Jonas

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