On Wed, 2020-06-24 at 19:48 +0200, Andreas Sturmlechner wrote: > On Wednesday, 24 June 2020 13:19:08 CEST Rich Freeman wrote: > > You seem to think that maintainers should know if they're maintaining > > a v2-only package. I suspect that most maintainers don't pay that > > close attention to what versions of python are supported by their > > various packages, and neither do most users. > > I would expect exactly that of maintainers. By now, there has been py27-EOL > mail on this list aplenty for everyone to get the message. > > Instead, every single maintainer should already have removed py27 from > defaults and be actively cutting down the resulting package.use list of those > packages they maintain and if necessary also their dependencies.
I think you're making the wrong assumption that Gentoo developers run bleeding edge systems. Instead, many of them prefer running stable and avoiding anything even remotely problematic. -- Best regards, Michał Górny
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