On 11/06/2024 14.54, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
> On 2024-06-11 07:11:06, Viorel Munteanu wrote:
>>
>> # Viorel Munteanu <ceamac@gentoo.org> (2024-06-11)
>> # dev-php/pear, dev-php/PEAR-* and their reverse dependencies: mask for 
>> removal
>> # in 30 days.
>> # They are all unmaintained, most of the ebuilds are still EAPI 6, and 
>> together
>> # they have around 40 bugs.
>> # Removal: 2024-07-11.  Bug #933998.
>> ...
> 
> Some of these should be saved:
> 
>  * app-admin/drush is the last version of drush that works with
>    Drupal-7.x (still supported upstream) and doesn't bundle a thousand
>    dependencies. I've been patching it to avoid warnings with newer
>    versions of PHP.
> 
>  * dev-php/PEAR-{Auth_SASL,Crypt_GPG,Mail_Mime,Net_IDNA2,Net_Sieve,
>                  Net_SMTP,Net_Socket,PEAR}
>    are all used by Roundcube. Our ebuilds for mail-client/roundcube
>    bundle them right now, but they can be unbundled (just rm -r
>    the bundled copies). Afterwards these will have revdeps again.
> 
> That subset should be relatively bug-free -- one of the authors of
> Roundcube maintains the PEAR packages that it needs. The rest are
> indeed obsolete AFAIK though.

Sounds good to me, then please make sure all that dependency tree needed
for those targets are EAPI bumped, and most QA warnings from pkgcheck
are handled. Currently those packages look unmaintained.

When you (or anyone else) handle those, we can un-last-rite that dep tree.

-- 
Arthur Zamarin
arthurzam@gentoo.org
Gentoo Linux developer (Python, pkgcore stack, QA, Arch Teams, GURU)