On 2020/06/13 17:27, Klemens Nanni wrote: > The port stuck at a release from early 2018, marked BROKEN due to > core dumps revolving libQtWebKit and depends on python2-only ports such > as x11/py-qt4 and www/py-beautifulsoup, of which the latter is massively > behind as well (3.2.2 from ca. 2013). > > From https://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/#Download > > Beautiful Soup 3 was the official release line of Beautiful Soup > from May 2006 to March 2012. It does not support Python 3 and it > will be discontinued on or after December 31, 2020—one year after > the Python 2 sunsetting date. If you have any active projects using > Beautiful Soup 3, you should migrate to Beautiful Soup 4 as part of > your Python 3 conversion. > > anki is also one of the only two consumers of py-beautifulsoup next to > textproc/calibre. > > Anyone OK with removing anki on its own, but also as part of cleaning > up behind beautifulsoup? >
The port was stuck due to not having qtwebengine which is needed for newer versions. There is a big enough change in build layout for the newer version that the current port isn't a good basis, so OK sthen@ to remove it.
