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From: Aaron Bauman <bman@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: app-cdr/sync2d
Date: Sat, 06 Jun 2020 01:14:09
Message-Id: 20200606011358.GB22507@bubba
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: app-cdr/sync2d by Matt Turner
1 On Fri, Jun 05, 2020 at 12:40:17PM -0700, Matt Turner wrote:
2 > On Fri, Jun 5, 2020 at 9:55 AM Jonas Stein <jstein@g.o> wrote:
3 > >
4 > > On 04/06/2020 01.39, Aaron Bauman wrote:
5 > > > # Aaron Bauman <bman@g.o> (2020-06-03)
6 > > > # py2 only. dead upstream. m-n.
7 > > > # Masked for removal in 15 days
8 > > > app-cdr/sync2cd
9 > > >
10 > >
11 > > is there a good reason to reduce the time to 15 days?
12 > >
13 > > https://devmanual.gentoo.org/ebuild-maintenance/removal/index.html
14 > > "Wait 30 days (or more)"
15 >
16 > I think we all agree that Python 2-only packages are going to have to
17 > be removed.
18 >
19 > This package is Python 2-only, and it was last released more than 13
20 > years ago, and the website even says that the project is dead
21 > (http://c-space.org/).
22 >
23 > With that in mind, I don't expect it to gain Python 3 support, nor do
24 > I expect an additional 15 days of waiting time to change that fact. 15
25 > vs 30 days doesn't seem worth squabbling over.
26 >
27
28 What Matt said.
29
30 Just speeds up removal because it is highly unlikely to gain Py3
31 support.
32
33 --
34 Cheers,
35 Aaron

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