Bug 482922

Summary:	sci-biology/biopython: fix ebuilds to include python-2.5 support
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Martin Mokrejš <mmokrejs>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Science Biology related packages <sci-biology>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Description Martin Mokrejš 2013-08-29 13:59:53 UTC

I have just realized that ebuilds require python 2.6 and above. That is wrong. Yesterday released version 1.62 is advertised as the last one supporting 2.5. We don't probably many/any users on python 2.5 but who knows.

Justin, while you are at it please copy the 1.61.ebuild under 1.62 filenanme. It works for me. Thank you.

Comment 1 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2013-08-29 14:26:46 UTC

It isn't going to be much use...

profiles/base/use.mask:

# Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org> (07 Aug 2013)
# These outdated versions of Python are no longer updated or maintained
# properly. Python 2.5 started to become a blocker for Python 3.3.
# Python 3.1 has proved to become unfriendly to writing portable code.
# PyPy is still experimental and we're in process of bringing 2.1.
# The masked packages will be removed in 30 days. Afterwards, ebuild
# and eclass support for those implementations will be removed.
# Bug #480070.
python_targets_python2_5

Comment 2 Justin Lecher (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2013-09-17 15:40:51 UTC

Jeroen is right, upstream might support py2.5 but Gentoo doesn't do anymore.

Comment 3 Justin Lecher (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2013-09-17 16:03:41 UTC

And sadly we also cannot add the py3 support as the deps aren't all available for py3.