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From: "Robin H. Johnson" <robbat2@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: app-mobilephone/lightblue
Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2020 16:24:37
Message-Id: robbat2-20200131T160743-170799364Z@orbis-terrarum.net
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: app-mobilephone/lightblue by "Michał Górny"
1 On Fri, Jan 31, 2020 at 08:31:10AM +0100, Michał Górny wrote:
2 > # Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> (2020-01-31)
3 > # Last release in 2009. No tests. Python 2 only. No reverse
4 > # dependencies.
5 > # Removal in 30 days. Bug #707550.
6 > app-mobilephone/lightblue
7
8 On Fri, Jan 31, 2020 at 08:35:27AM +0100, Michał Górny wrote:
9 > Hello,
10 >
11 > The Python team no longer wishes to maintain the following package:
12 >
13 > dev-python/pybluez
14 >
15 > It has no tests, and it'd be better for it to have a dedicated
16 > maintainer with working bluez and possible a use case for one of its
17 > reverse dependencies:
18 I'm using lightblue for rapid development to reverse-engineer/test
19 behavior of some Bluetooth devices. Mostly as there was NOTHING else
20 that made it easy to get it done.
21
22 I don't care for the other reverse deps, but I'm willing to port
23 lightblue to py3 and bump pybluez.
24
25 > app-mobilephone/ganyremote
26 > app-mobilephone/wammu
27 > kde-misc/kanyremote
28 Is anybody willing to maintain these 3?
29 If not, lastrite them subject to upstream not doing the 2.7 ports.
30
31 > There's an open version bump request, missing dep bug and the package
32 > needs testing with newer Python versions. However, all revdeps are
33 > py2.7-only.
34 I'll see about the these.
35
36 --
37 Robin Hugh Johnson
38 Gentoo Linux: Dev, Infra Lead, Foundation Treasurer
39 E-Mail : robbat2@g.o
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: app-mobilephone/lightblue "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: app-mobilephone/lightblue "Robin H. Johnson" <robbat2@g.o>