Bug 459044 – Remove some old -python packages

• Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Pacho Ramos 2013-02-24 17:35:37 UTC]

The following packages look deprecated and obsolete and nothing in the tree needs them:
dev-python/brasero-python
dev-python/evince-python
dev-python/gdl-python
dev-python/gnome-media-python
dev-python/libgda-python
dev-python/libgksu-python
dev-python/libgtop-python
dev-python/totem-python

Reproducible: Always

[Comment 1 Gilles Dartiguelongue (RETIRED) 2013-02-25 08:14:58 UTC]

Those packages gave us no maintenance up to now and I'd rather double check that all in tree packages use the split python bindings before trying to remove them.

[Comment 2 Markos Chandras (RETIRED) 2013-02-25 10:03:24 UTC]

Is there a reason to remove them is they JustWork(tm)?

[Comment 3 Markos Chandras (RETIRED) 2013-02-25 10:03:42 UTC]

s/is/if/

[Comment 4 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) 2013-02-25 10:08:29 UTC]

(In reply to comment #2)
> Is there a reason to remove them is they JustWork(tm)?

Who else is going to take care of unmaintained / dead GNOME packages if not the gnome@ team? :-/

+1 for removing any gnome2 related bindings that are not used in tree, in favour of gnome3 bindings

[Comment 5 Markos Chandras (RETIRED) 2013-02-25 10:18:57 UTC]

(In reply to comment #4)
> (In reply to comment #2)
> > Is there a reason to remove them is they JustWork(tm)?
> 
> Who else is going to take care of unmaintained / dead GNOME packages if not
> the gnome@ team? :-/
> 
> +1 for removing any gnome2 related bindings that are not used in tree, in
> favour of gnome3 bindings

I mean, if they just work just let them stay unless they break in the future. Or just drop them to maintainer-needed

[Comment 6 Gilles Dartiguelongue (RETIRED) 2013-02-25 10:37:35 UTC]

my point is that we don't even know if they are not used for real because there might still be ebuilds using the meta packages to pull in everything instead of the bindings they need.

[Comment 7 Pacho Ramos 2013-02-25 18:33:06 UTC]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Those packages gave us no maintenance up to now and I'd rather double check
> that all in tree packages use the split python bindings before trying to
> remove them.

I am sure we already checked that some months ago, do we still have packages depending on metas providing all splits?

[Comment 8 Gilles Dartiguelongue (RETIRED) 2013-02-25 22:52:41 UTC]

looks like decibel-audio-player is still offending the policy according to http://qa-reports.gentoo.org/, but that's only on base packages, not extra.

[Comment 9 Pacho Ramos 2013-02-26 18:55:12 UTC]

This was the tracker I was trying to find ;)
bug 108479

[Comment 10 Pacho Ramos 2013-06-15 20:25:12 UTC]

Will wait them for start to fail to treeclean then