Bug 721830

Summary:	dev-embedded/esptool-2.1: remove amd64 stable version without stabilizing another version
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Martin Dummer <martin.dummer>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Andreas Sturmlechner <asturm>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX
Severity:	normal	CC:	jstein, martin.dummer
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Description Martin Dummer 2020-05-09 10:08:07 UTC

Today I discovered that dev-embedded/esptool on my KEYWORD=amd64 system is outdated and not willing to update.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.

Comment 1 Jonas Stein gentoo-dev

2020-05-12 22:15:17 UTC

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.

Comment 2 Andreas Sturmlechner gentoo-dev

2020-05-13 00:15:39 UTC

There is no maintainer of this package to keep up the stable keyword.

Comment 3 Andreas Sturmlechner gentoo-dev

2020-05-13 00:36:35 UTC

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.