Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@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 20:29:46
Message-Id: 92a4697d1701ca0aa9d09f92bb21282158c13367.camel@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: dev-python/*, python-maintained, py3.6-only, no-revdep by Matt Turner
1 On Sat, 2020-03-07 at 12:26 -0800, Matt Turner wrote:
2 > On Sat, Mar 7, 2020 at 12:17 PM Jonas Stein <jstein@g.o> wrote:
3 > > On 07/03/2020 19.27, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
4 > > > > > > > > On Sat, 07 Mar 2020, Michał Górny wrote:
5 > > > > > Just the ebuild being outdated doesn't sound like a sufficient reason
6 > > > > > for removal of a package, at least not for those packages that install
7 > > > > > applications for the end user.
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 > Christ guys. Just add python 3.7 support and unmask it.
24
25 ...and 3.8, please, so we don't have to go back here a year from now.
26
27 --
28 Best regards,
29 Michał Górny

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