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From: "J. Roeleveld" <joost@××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] python-updater: depclean removes it?
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2016 12:22:01
Message-Id: 3991063.OkZvegkH0B@andromeda
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] python-updater: depclean removes it? by Daniel Frey
1 On Monday, August 29, 2016 05:10:37 PM Daniel Frey wrote:
2 > On 08/29/2016 03:39 PM, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
3 > > On 08/29/2016 06:10 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
4 > >> What replaces it's functionality, or what is now in the codebase that
5 > >> guarantees the problems python-updater fixed can't happen anymore?
6 > >
7 > > *shrug*
8 > >
9 > > mgorny says:
10 > > It's obsolete for a long time (pretty much since PYTHON_TARGETS
11 > > become widespread), full of bugs and pretty much useless these days.
12 > > It will be masked for removal soon. However, we are giving people a
13 > > few more weeks to get it cleaned out of their systems to avoid any
14 > > potential issues.
15 > >
16 > > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=590120
17 >
18 > Ah, that's why I didn't find a bug, it was closed already.
19 >
20 > Dan
21
22 For something like this, a news-item would have been more useful than a
23 message in a bug-report.
24
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26 Joost