Re: [gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs: dev-python/{autobahn,cbor,girder-client,kazoo,libcloud,logbook}

[Brian Dolbec]

On Fri, 24 Apr 2020 08:22:47 +0200
Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> The following packages will no longer be maintained by the Python
> team:
>
> dev-python/autobahn
> dev-python/cbor

 I'll maintain these again along with buildbot now that I am back.

> dev-python/girder-client
> dev-python/kazoo
> dev-python/libcloud
> dev-python/logbook
>
> All of them are stuck on py3.6 and have 1-2 revdeps, and aren't very
> useful to the general Python community.  All of them have some
> problems that prevent us from testing them, and generally would
> qualify for last rites if they were not blocked by the revdeps.
>
> autobahn is only used by vpython (sci@), vtk (sci@) and buildbot (last
> rited).  It is multiple versions behind upstream.
>
> cbor is needed for autobahn and ros.  It hasn't been touched since
> 2016. The test suite fails, and is pretty unreadable.  It looks like
> a new serialization format that didn't work out.

Hopefully newer buildbot versions won't need as many deps and we can
clean some of the old ones...

>
> girder-client is only sed by yt (sci-astronomy@).  The ebuild doesn't
> declare tests.
>
> kazoo has no real revdeps (only zake that are 'testing utilities' for
> kazoo).  Testing requires a running Zookeeper instance.
>
> libcloud is used by salt only (chutzpah@).  It has all tests
> restricted because of 'known test failures'.  Someone needs to put an
> effort to make the tests pass or at least filter out these that don't
> pass and run the rest.
>
> logbook is used only by pyfa and nikola.  I've tried bumping it
> but a lot of tests still fail with the newest version and then one
> seems to hang.
>
> Expect more as I proceed with py3.7 testing.
>