2011-05-17 20:24:16 Mark Loeser napisał(a):
> Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis <Arfrever@gentoo.org> said:
> > > I second that. Why do we need to make all the work fixing packages
> > > instead of letting upstream do their job? I am not so excited to 
> > > fix every package I maintain as it is quite possible to introduce
> > > regressions in the process. Furthermore, I don't understand your first
> > > message. You say that you will provide xml.use_pyxml() function on
> > > python-2.7. Is this code official or you are just patching the official
> > > python releases?
> > > Anyway, as I said, I'd rather wait for upstream to fix their packages
> > > instead of me.
> > 
> > Some upstreams are dead and some packages using PyXML will never be ported by upstreams to use
> > something else than PyXML (e.g. lxml).
> 
> Then those packages should get removed from the tree.  Do not start
> introducing Gentoo specific hacks to work around the problem.

Majority of packages from http://tinderbox.dev.gentoo.org/misc/rindex/dev-python/pyxml seem to
have active upstreams, which doesn't mean they are actively working on porting these packages
to use something else than PyXML.

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Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis