Am Dienstag, 23. Juni 2020, 20:48:04 EEST schrieb Patrick Lauer:

> (And this is why I'm against things like the current py2 purge: There is
> code out there that works, can't be rewritten to py3 in a reasonable
> time*, and hasn't been rewritten in another language yet. There is no

> tl;dr: I want to be lazy, so stop breaking stuff ;)

You gotta be kidding me. 

If your employer wants to work on obsolete (yes) stuff, he should task you 
with maintaining it. 

In the context of a distribution that does *not* only mean "keep things until 
they are so rotten you can't distinguish them from the floor anymore", but it 
also means fixing bugs and keeping the dependency tree in a sane state.

So, in this case I would strongly recommend to the higher-ups of A***** to pay 
you (or anyone else) to commit to keeping 
* not just what *you* need in Python2 maintained and working, but
* to maintain the whole python-related package tree in a consistent state 
then. 
Not just complaining that others don't volunteer the work.

(This argument applies equally to other cases, like S***.)

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Andreas K. Hüttel
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Gentoo Linux developer 
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