On Fri, 24 Apr 2020 08:22:47 +0200 Michał Górny <mgo...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> Hi, > > The following packages will no longer be maintained by the Python > team: > > dev-python/autobahn > dev-python/cbor I'll maintain these again along with buildbot now that I am back. > dev-python/girder-client > dev-python/kazoo > dev-python/libcloud > dev-python/logbook > > All of them are stuck on py3.6 and have 1-2 revdeps, and aren't very > useful to the general Python community. All of them have some > problems that prevent us from testing them, and generally would > qualify for last rites if they were not blocked by the revdeps. > > autobahn is only used by vpython (sci@), vtk (sci@) and buildbot (last > rited). It is multiple versions behind upstream. > > cbor is needed for autobahn and ros. It hasn't been touched since > 2016. The test suite fails, and is pretty unreadable. It looks like > a new serialization format that didn't work out. Hopefully newer buildbot versions won't need as many deps and we can clean some of the old ones... > > girder-client is only sed by yt (sci-astronomy@). The ebuild doesn't > declare tests. > > kazoo has no real revdeps (only zake that are 'testing utilities' for > kazoo). Testing requires a running Zookeeper instance. > > libcloud is used by salt only (chutzpah@). It has all tests > restricted because of 'known test failures'. Someone needs to put an > effort to make the tests pass or at least filter out these that don't > pass and run the rest. > > logbook is used only by pyfa and nikola. I've tried bumping it > but a lot of tests still fail with the newest version and then one > seems to hang. > > Expect more as I proceed with py3.7 testing. >
