Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev-announce

From: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev-announce <gentoo-dev-announce@l.g.o>
Cc: gentoo-dev <gentoo-dev@l.g.o>
Subject: [gentoo-dev-announce] Last rites: dev-python/pyliblzma, sys-apps/yum, app-arch/createrepo
Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2019 08:47:14
Message-Id: bed33512680cdb458a1302b8003c74c4834d7840.camel@gentoo.org
1 # Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> (15 Mar 2019)
2 # pyliblzma installs an old 'lzma' module that is incompatible with
3 # the 'lzma' built-in in Python 3. As a result, programs written
4 # to conditionally import the latter when available (assuming it will
5 # have Python 3 API) are broken by its presence. The suggested
6 # replacement is dev-python/backports-lzma that is backported
7 # from Python 3.
8 #
9 # Yum is the only reverse dependency of pyliblzma left (#643312). Its
10 # last release is from 2011, and the current Gentoo snapshot is
11 # from 2017. Upstream git hosting / gitweb is broken and makes it
12 # impossible to fetch current sources. Fedora is apparently replacing
13 # it with DNF.
14 #
15 # Removal in 30 days. Bug #643308.
16 app-arch/createrepo
17 dev-python/pyliblzma
18 sys-apps/yum
19
20 --
21 Best regards,
22 Michał Górny

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