Re: [gentoo-user] Discontinued Package: Copy to local overlay, just leave installed, or install manually?

[Mike Civil <mike@duncodin.org>]

On 19/02/2023 11:57, Matthias Hanft wrote:
> Ehm... maybe a misunderstanding? The posting I mentioned was:
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> Subject: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: dev-python/oauth2client and revdeps (app-misc/gcalcli, app-misc/goobook, net-misc/gsutil)
> # Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org> (2023-02-03)
> # The package has been archived upstream.  It is broken with all Python
> # versions supported by Gentoo, and it is broken with django-2.
> # The other listed packages are its reverse dependencies.
> # Removal on 2023-03-05.  Bug #718972.
> app-misc/gcalcli
> app-misc/goobook
> dev-python/gcs-oauth2-boto-plugin
> dev-python/google-apitools
> dev-python/google-reauth-python
> dev-python/oauth2client
> net-misc/gsutil
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> I interpreted this as "all of them are going to be removed".
>
> Anyway, "equery d oauth2client" lists gcs-oauth2-boto-plugin,
> google-apitools, and google-reauth-python as well (which are
> dependencies of gsutil). So even the removal of oauth2client
> alone would break gsutil.
>
> BTW, all of them have only python_targets_python3_9 and 3_10.
> Currenty I have Python 3.10 and 3.11 installed, and "eselect
> python list" says "3.11 3.10" (in that order). Why does gsutil
> work anyway? Automatic fallback to 3.10?
>
> I guess I must not ever deinstall Python 3.10 in order to keep
> this running?
>
> -Matt
>
Fair enough - so the issue is really with dev-python/oauth2client which 
does look abandoned. That's the package you really need to keep a local 
copy of but that really looks like it could break at any time.

However the README from that package states:-

"Note: oauth2client is now deprecated. No more features will be added to 
the libraries and the core team is turning down support. We recommend 
you use google-auth and oauthlib. For more details on the deprecation, 
see oauth2client deprecation."

Portage has google-auth and friends.

Note that gsutil itself is still being maintained (at 
https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/gsutil) and as it's the 
"official" Google package then is already likely to work with the latest 
access methods.

Worst case uninstall the portage gsutil and look into installing gsutil 
into /usr/local from the official GoogleCloud site above. I'd expect 
Portage's gsutil to catch up at some point.

IMO installing local copies of gsutil with broken dependency packages 
and then maintaining them looks like a potential world of pain !