From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Nodzz-0002Ce-TW for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 08 Mar 2010 14:32:07 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DB644E0871; Mon, 8 Mar 2010 14:31:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from petteriraty.eu (host.petteriraty.eu [188.40.80.83]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 26084E0616 for ; Mon, 8 Mar 2010 14:31:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from Petteri-Ratys-MacBook-Pro.local (unknown [193.185.174.114]) by petteriraty.eu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 8C6FE33CFE for ; Mon, 8 Mar 2010 14:31:49 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <4B950A54.1010102@gentoo.org> Date: Mon, 08 Mar 2010 16:31:48 +0200 From: =?UTF-8?B?UGV0dGVyaSBSw6R0eQ==?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.1.8) Gecko/20100227 Thunderbird/3.0.3 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Python 3.1: Stabilization and news item References: <201003041923.17749.Arfrever@gentoo.org> <4B902321.4020906@gentoo.org> <20100307171147.GL30005@halcy0n.com> <20100307210814.1dd43fc8@gentoo.org> <20100308050038.GA2172@Zeerak.Fullrate> <4B94C5C7.9090703@gentoo.org> <20100308095337.GA16259@chopin.edu.pl> <1268058182.22940.11.camel@lillen> In-Reply-To: <1268058182.22940.11.camel@lillen> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 615c837e-0049-44df-aadf-2b0e547a51f9 X-Archives-Hash: 26c429af456d083a8744e4893577bdc7 On 8.3.2010 16.23, Peter Hjalmarsson wrote: > > AFAICS you are right (and that is also why I have a hard time > understanding the flames here, are people so against fixing the deps in > their packages and/or filing bugs and/or contacting devrel about those > maintainers who refuse to fix their packages?). > There's some history with the original author that contributes to people being negative about this. This is not the first thread about python-3 and many feel that it's being forced on them when they have no use for it (but the forcing part doesn't match reality that much any more as has been shown). I don't think anyone is against fixing the deps but who takes the job of reviewing them all? Regards, Petteri