On Sun, 26 Apr 2020 17:43:16 +0200 Michał Górny <mgo...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> The Python team will no longer maintain the following packages. They > all need porting to Python 3.7 and newer, and have some obstacle > in doing so. They have only few revdeps which we do not maintain. > > dev-python/pythondialog > dev-python/ramlfications > dev-python/repoze-sphinx-autointerface > dev-python/robotframework > dev-python/sleekxmpp > dev-python/sphinxcontrib-issuetracker > dev-python/toro > dev-python/txaio > dev-python/txAMQP > dev-python/txgithub > dev-python/txrequests > > > pythondialog is used by net-analyzer/gvm-tools (jonas.licht@) > and net-vpn/protonvpn-cli (ilmostro7@). It is missing tests. > > ramlfications are used by dev-util/buildbot (dolsen@ indicate he'll > revive it). The tests fail already and it's on 2016 snapshot. > It seems pretty much dead. > > repoze-sphinx-autointerface is used by dev-python/txtorcon (just taken > by dolsen@). It is missing tests. > > robotframework is needed only for dev-python/robotbackgroundlogger > (zmedico@). It is missing tests. > > sleekxmpp is used by net-im/err (pinkbyte@) and net-im/spectrum2 > (conikost@, andrey_utkin@). It is broken with py3.7 and upstream > has archived the repository. > > sphinxcontrib-issuetracker is used only by dev-python/pydocstyle > (python@, monsieurp@, andrewammerlaan@). Either the tests or the > whole package is broken with Sphinx 3 (and possibly older). > > toro is needed only by dev-python/thriftpy (sci@). Some of the tests > are failing (already) and no upstream activity since 2016. > > txaio is only used by dev-util/buildbot (dolsen@) and sci-libs/vtk > (sci@). All tests fail with a test suite error. > > txAMQP by dev-python/carbon (patrick@, grobian@). Tests require > a system instance of rabbitmq server. > > txgithub is the only package that I managed to test up to Python 3.8 > (though either test coverage or API coverage is near zero). It is > used by dev-util/buildbot (dolsen@). > > txrequests is used by dev-util/buildbot (dolsen@). It is missing > tests. > Yes, I'll take the buildbot ones again. ramlfications had been dropped by buildbot. It is only for buildbot-0.9.7 which I'll be cleaning out, so we can mark it for cleaning.