Today I discovered that dev-embedded/esptool on my KEYWORD=amd64 system is outdated and not willing to update. Current package on my system is dev-embedded/esptool-2.1, keyworded amd64 ~arm ~x86 Package in tree is now only dev-embedded/esptool-2.8 keyworded ~amd64 ~arm ~x86 Why do you remove stable packages without stabilizing another version before? I see no bug reports justifying this.
commit ea86ff88c494c3551724324f4f48d0cc5b79d595 Author: Andreas Sturmlechner <asturm@gentoo.org> Date: Thu May 7 23:19:49 2020 +0200 dev-embedded/esptool: Drop 2.1 and 2.6, py36-only No maintainer, no more stable.
There is no maintainer of this package to keep up the stable keyword.
To be clear, this was dropped because even though random people did commit version bumps on the package in the pasts, no one bothered to do stabilisation in 2,5 years. Now it became a liability for having a stable py36-only version in the tree. Without the maintainer situation changing, there is no reason to believe this will be different the next time default python target will be raised.
