Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis <[email protected]> said:
> > I second that. Why do we need to make all the work fixing packages
> > instead of letting upstream do their job? I am not so excited to 
> > fix every package I maintain as it is quite possible to introduce
> > regressions in the process. Furthermore, I don't understand your first
> > message. You say that you will provide xml.use_pyxml() function on
> > python-2.7. Is this code official or you are just patching the official
> > python releases?
> > Anyway, as I said, I'd rather wait for upstream to fix their packages
> > instead of me.
> 
> Some upstreams are dead and some packages using PyXML will never be ported by 
> upstreams to use
> something else than PyXML (e.g. lxml).

Then those packages should get removed from the tree.  Do not start
introducing Gentoo specific hacks to work around the problem.

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Mark Loeser
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