On 3/10/26 8:18 PM, Sam James wrote:

> OK, but what do we do about the dev-python/chardet case? How do we
> signal to people that they shouldn't bump to it and shouldn't depend on
>> =7 (the bad version)?
> 
> We can rely on people "just knowing" for chardet because it's maintained
> by @python, but what do we do for maintainer-needed packages say in this
> state?


This seems best suited to preemptively package.mask'ing >=xyz , with a
suitable explanation. Attempting to bump to it will automatically
"fail", and it is already visibility == 0 to pkgcheck so other packages
cannot depend on it unless similarly visibility == 0.


-- 
Eli Schwartz

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