On Sun, 20 Jun 2021 16:13:56 +0100, Kaashif Hymabaccus
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello ports@,
>
> I was looking at upgrading mail/rss2email to 3.13.1, but this would
> require textproc/py-feedparser to be upgraded to version 6, due to
> rss2email relying on some changes made in version 6.
>
> The problem is that feedparser 6 makes several breaking changes,
> including completely dropping Python 2 support.
>
> Dropping Python 2 support is probably not a big deal for most ports
> (except perhaps www/canto, which I notice has "MODPY_VERSION =
> ${MODPY_DEFAULT_VERSION_2}").
https://github.com/themoken/canto-next seems to support python3, so
maybe updating it is enough?
> If a package drops support for Python 2 and another package needs it,
> how do we deal with that? Just remove the old package? Port the
> package to Python 3 and send patches to the authors? That last one
> seems not so trivial.
You could also create a new port textproc/py2-feedparser with the last
version supporting legacy python.
Cheers,
Daniel
