From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D2A87138334 for ; Thu, 5 Dec 2019 14:24:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DF1B6E089D; Thu, 5 Dec 2019 14:24:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-pj1-f49.google.com (mail-pj1-f49.google.com [209.85.216.49]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A67E4E0895 for ; Thu, 5 Dec 2019 14:24:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-pj1-f49.google.com with SMTP id s35so1361064pjb.7 for ; Thu, 05 Dec 2019 06:24:39 -0800 (PST) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:references:in-reply-to:from:date :message-id:subject:to:cc; bh=UrUIAwunf5EDptXcmaV78N7H46/Slv3s7vvJMsaBJZU=; b=GjpAbW+P/bBxLuWKBREZt68C7oNJL8rvBmBiC0jQxE6l5yZZeprXwp1JtdStpkqgo3 khkAQyEhT4uqpvIsbXb6Q6HKuHGKHyash7+pJ7BNjCS7jaOdqEroTl/aMgCF8quzV2iJ biqhiyt99gu8DKRM+NegVEIZ3bN232qe38mRTLEUNRKEAVqkgDXbi0VS296Yeu4cnq8g hl+cvengjGL4AdUdtaQZGtUkYvJkrQ6aD+MnztuK608inM5ydRY1pwV50T5wK2yq4ffZ pZ2dZbHs/lhesDe1iK/fxLn4FZr0CNdre8lL/5ca31rpZ8Dar+V4wmkiCDEo1vIC7dcu zBCA== X-Gm-Message-State: APjAAAVRtV/I1a6BMhQh4XwAT9bqV4v9iH3jtVVz5TvPt4OgxOkLPW4M rQIJut+KiTp8n4gMST/1KrG+lQLtrrvV3etkF3Jg8w== X-Google-Smtp-Source: APXvYqwdxr5P9vvmaMc0lsTBMgtMuCNkNLrxUMt6XCX2e+y6FB6rGdJgEcpDEpccLq4Wn1Y5NWfWdJP4UOLRBJ/uX8U= X-Received: by 2002:a17:902:aa08:: with SMTP id be8mr9063585plb.255.1575555878082; Thu, 05 Dec 2019 06:24:38 -0800 (PST) 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 X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply MIME-Version: 1.0 References: In-Reply-To: From: Rich Freeman Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2019 09:24:26 -0500 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] unsanctioned python 2.7 crusade To: gentoo-dev Cc: Aaron Bauman Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Archives-Salt: d73c7a02-9231-4e36-a6ca-47e57f5e9b4d X-Archives-Hash: 5b38a42b2c691fac40c0750329b978e3 On Thu, Dec 5, 2019 at 8:59 AM Jason A. Donenfeld wrote: > > It's quite another to mask random packages that have USE flags to > optionally support whatever python 2.7 library. If you're going to > last rites these, talk with the maintainer first, and only then, send > emails one at a time. Doing that en masse isn't appropriate. ++ - I have no idea if that happened. For anything USE-controlled it would make more sense to file a bug or mask the package-flag combo itself. > > On another topic, I'd prefer for python 2.7 not to be removed from > gentoo. Tons of code still uses it. > I'm sure a million people would share that preference. I'm not sure what the upstream/security status is of 2.7. Obviously to keep it around it would need to be reasonably secure, and somebody within Gentoo would have to want to maintain it. That's basically the criteria for keeping anything like this around. If somebody stepped up and said "I'm maintaining 2.7 and here is why it will remain secure..." I doubt they'd get a lot of resistance. -- Rich