Re: [gentoo-dev] */*: Mask Py2 only packages

[Rich Freeman]

On Wed, Jun 24, 2020 at 3:04 PM Andreas Sturmlechner <asturm@g.o> wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Jun 24, 2020 at 11:29 AM Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o> wrote:
> > > Sure, you can use the portage API to find this info.  However, that is
> > > as easy to do for a list of all impacted packages in the tree with
> > > their maintainers as for any individual maintainer to obtain this info
> > > for their own packages.
>
> I'm appealing to a more proactive maintenance, not in search for excuses why
> it is not like that. And ftr I don't mean trying to be "first!" on every
> upstream version bump; it is just that the python topic has come up often
> enough that it should have sparked individual head scratching at one point or
> another.
>
> > On Wednesday, 24 June 2020 20:40:58 CEST Alec Warner wrote:
> > You say there is not a straightforward way, but then you say there is an
> > api? :p
>
> grep all the things! But hey, there's even external tools to help you get an
> overview:
>
> https://repology.org/maintainer/rich0%40gentoo.org
>
> You're welcome.

I'm well aware of that.  That will get you a list of what you
maintain, but not which of those things use python2.  It is also
completely external.  (I do love that tool though - great for finding
bumps.)

grep is really not a reliable tool for parsing ebuilds.  The API is
really the right way to do it.

What I was getting at though is that just posting a big list up-front
will probably get more results than just telling everybody to try to
figure out if they're impacted.

(Also, I noticed that the list I sent out earlier contained some
overlay-only packages - probably best to re-run it on a clean
repository.  Since it uses the API it sees everything portage sees,
including overlays.)

-- 
Rich