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On Wed, 2020-06-24 at 19:48 +0200, Andreas Sturmlechner wrote: |
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> On Wednesday, 24 June 2020 13:19:08 CEST Rich Freeman wrote: |
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> > You seem to think that maintainers should know if they're maintaining |
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> > a v2-only package. I suspect that most maintainers don't pay that |
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> > close attention to what versions of python are supported by their |
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> > various packages, and neither do most users. |
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> I would expect exactly that of maintainers. By now, there has been py27-EOL |
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> mail on this list aplenty for everyone to get the message. |
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> Instead, every single maintainer should already have removed py27 from |
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> defaults and be actively cutting down the resulting package.use list of those |
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> packages they maintain and if necessary also their dependencies. |
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I think you're making the wrong assumption that Gentoo developers run |
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bleeding edge systems. Instead, many of them prefer running stable |
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and avoiding anything even remotely problematic. |
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Best regards, |
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Michał Górny |
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