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 Just the ebuild being outdated doesn't sound like a sufficient reason 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. > > 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
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