On Sat, Mar 7, 2020 at 9:57 AM Andreas Sturmlechner <ast...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On Samstag, 7. März 2020 18:49:25 CET Ulrich Mueller wrote: > > Just the ebuild being outdated doesn't sound like a sufficient reason > > for removal of a package, at least not for those packages that install > > applications for the end user. > > They are python packages and as such they block cleanup of old python > versions. Someone has to actually put effort into each of them to keep > them > alive. > I think the idea is that this is all implicit in the notification, rather than being explicit, which muddles the messaging. I *suspect* that py3.6 will get dropped eventually as its no longer developed (but is security supported by upstream through 2021.) If we just came out and said "Hey we plan on dropping python-3.6 in X[0] months, here are a bunch of packages on py-3.6, we need to either drop them or update them" the conversation would be slightly different. I also suspect the conversation did not go this way because then instead of discussing who would maintain these packages, we would be discussing "why python-3.6 should not be dropped until the last possible day in 2021" which sounds reminiscent of python2 ;) I think however, that we can do both. Python-3.6 will get removed eventually; there are dozens of packages that need help and I don't think it is incumbent on the python team to do all of the work, hence this thread notifying folks that "hey if you use these packages they will need help to stay around." [0] We could all argue over some value of X; but on another thread please ;p > > > > But that's by no means all ebuilds like that, just a subset Python > > > team doesn't see much of a point maintaining. > > > > Why had they been added then, in the first place? > > Packages get added by someone, then that someone does not care about them > anymore and they fall behind. Is that really news? > > People who see a need for some of those can pick them up as maintainers > after > all. > > Regards, > Andreas
