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List:       gentoo-dev
Subject:    Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: app-mobilephone/lightblue
From:       Michał_Górny <mgorny () gentoo ! org>
Date:       2020-01-31 18:00:29
Message-ID: 283d2287dccc5f2357f9b965b22a4eca80326741.camel () gentoo ! org
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On Fri, 2020-01-31 at 16:24 +0000, Robin H. Johnson wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 31, 2020 at 08:31:10AM +0100, Michał Górny wrote:
> > # Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org> (2020-01-31)
> > # Last release in 2009.  No tests.  Python 2 only.  No reverse
> > # dependencies.
> > # Removal in 30 days.  Bug #707550.
> > app-mobilephone/lightblue
> 
> On Fri, Jan 31, 2020 at 08:35:27AM +0100, Michał Górny wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > The Python team no longer wishes to maintain the following package:
> > 
> > dev-python/pybluez
> > 
> > It has no tests, and it'd be better for it to have a dedicated
> > maintainer with working bluez and possible a use case for one of its
> > reverse dependencies:
> I'm using lightblue for rapid development to reverse-engineer/test
> behavior of some Bluetooth devices. Mostly as there was NOTHING else
> that made it easy to get it done.
> 
> I don't care for the other reverse deps, but I'm willing to port
> lightblue to py3 and bump pybluez.

Doesn't it work via pip/virtualenv?  I'm not going to stop you from
maintaining it if you want to but we generally recommend using
virtualenv for stuff that doesn't have end-user program kind of revdeps.


-- 
Best regards,
Michał Górny


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