Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: app-mobilephone/lightblue

[Michał Górny]

On Mon, 2020-02-03 at 17:31 +0000, Robin H. Johnson wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 31, 2020 at 04:24:31PM +0000, Robin H. Johnson wrote:
> > > The Python team no longer wishes to maintain the following package:
> > >
> > > dev-python/pybluez
> > >
> > > It has no tests, and it'd be better for it to have a dedicated
> > > maintainer with working bluez and possible a use case for one of its
> > > reverse dependencies:
> > I'm using lightblue for rapid development to reverse-engineer/test
> > behavior of some Bluetooth devices. Mostly as there was NOTHING else
> > that made it easy to get it done.
> >
> > I don't care for the other reverse deps, but I'm willing to port
> > lightblue to py3 and bump pybluez.
> I reviewed most of the dev-python/lightblue codebase over my flights,
> and hereby recind my intent to port it to py3.
>
> I converted my coding to Golang's bluetooth instead.
>
> > > app-mobilephone/ganyremote
> > > app-mobilephone/wammu
> > > kde-misc/kanyremote
> > Is anybody willing to maintain these 3?
> > If not, lastrite them subject to upstream not doing the 2.7 ports.
> Please last-rite dev-python/lightblue with these.
>
> I think dev-python/pybluez can stay for the moment, as it's maintained
> upstream. I'll keep pybluez if there are no other maintainers.

pybluez supports python3.  However, someone needs to test it with newer
Python 3 versions.

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Best regards,
Michał Górny