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Am Dienstag, 23. Juni 2020, 20:48:04 EEST schrieb Patrick Lauer: |
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> (And this is why I'm against things like the current py2 purge: There is |
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> code out there that works, can't be rewritten to py3 in a reasonable |
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> time*, and hasn't been rewritten in another language yet. There is no |
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> tl;dr: I want to be lazy, so stop breaking stuff ;) |
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You gotta be kidding me. |
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If your employer wants to work on obsolete (yes) stuff, he should task you |
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with maintaining it. |
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In the context of a distribution that does *not* only mean "keep things until |
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they are so rotten you can't distinguish them from the floor anymore", but it |
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also means fixing bugs and keeping the dependency tree in a sane state. |
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So, in this case I would strongly recommend to the higher-ups of A***** to pay |
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you (or anyone else) to commit to keeping |
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* not just what *you* need in Python2 maintained and working, but |
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* to maintain the whole python-related package tree in a consistent state |
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then. |
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Not just complaining that others don't volunteer the work. |
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(This argument applies equally to other cases, like S***.) |
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Andreas K. Hüttel |
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dilfridge@g.o |
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Gentoo Linux developer |
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(council, qa, toolchain, base-system, perl, libreoffice) |
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