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From: Sam James <sam@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] Add deblob support only for python3
Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2021 23:17:25
Message-Id: 557BDC07-26BA-44C6-B163-FF724173F6EA@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] Add deblob support only for python3 by Peter Stuge
1 > On 25 Jul 2021, at 23:10, Peter Stuge <peter@×××××.se> wrote:
2 >
3 > Alice wrote:
4 >> +++ b/eclass/kernel-2.eclass
5 > ..
6 >> - PYTHON_COMPAT=( python2_7 )
7 >> + PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{7..10} )
8 >
9 > From
10 >
11 > https://www.fsfla.org/pipermail/linux-libre/2020-August/003404.html
12 >
13 > it seems that it may be possible to need only very simple tools for the
14 > deblob program(s). I think that would be a worthwhile improvement and it
15 > would probably also simplify integration of deblob not only in Gentoo.
16
17 Instead of linking to a huge release announcement, could you summarise it?
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19 Better yet, if there's nothing to add, email threads tend to be easier to read with fewer interventions.
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21 This one has got rather noisy in particular.
22
23 >
24 > That said, if python2_7 is not a thing in Gentoo anymore then the patch
25 > makes sense to me.
26 >
27
28 It's not been a thing for quite some time other than build-time only dependencies
29 which we're only keeping for (now older) Chromium and Firefox/SpiderMonkey.

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