Re: Python 3.5 and 3.6 removal (was Re: Bonfire of the Packages)

[Takashi Yano <takashi.yano@nifty.ne.jp>]

On Fri, 5 Apr 2024 13:46:18 +0100
Jon Turney wrote:
> On 02/04/2024 15:58, Takashi Yano via Cygwin-apps wrote:
> > On Tue, 2 Apr 2024 15:38:25 +0100
> > Jon Turney wrote:
> >> On 01/04/2024 18:16, David Rothenberger via Cygwin-apps wrote:
> >>> On 3/30/2024 8:25 AM, Jon Turney wrote:
> >>>> On 29/03/2024 18:32, David Rothenberger via Cygwin-apps wrote:
> >>>>> On 3/28/2024 10:50 AM, Jon Turney via Cygwin-apps wrote:
> >>>> [...]
> >>>>>> David,
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Is it possible to update/rebuild rdiff-backup, which replies upon
> >>>>>> the soon-to-be removed python36?
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> (Or indicate that you are no longer interested in maintaining this
> >>>>>> package, which will probably lead to it's removal).
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Please remove me as the maintainer from that package. I no longer use
> >>>>> it, and no longer have an environment for building packages for Cygwin.
> >>>>
> >>>> No problem. Thanks for maintaining it in the past.
> >>>>
> >>>> Is the same true for your other packages?
> >>>>
> >>>> $ grep Rothenberger cygwin-pkg-maint | grep -v ORPHANED
> >>>> cyrus-sasl                                   David Rothenberger
> >>>> flac                                         David Rothenberger
> >>>> libao                                        David Rothenberger
> >>>> libapr1                                      David Rothenberger
> >>>> libaprutil1                                  David Rothenberger
> >>>> libkate                                      David Rothenberger
> >>>> libogg                                       David Rothenberger
> >>>> librsync                                     David Rothenberger
> >>>> libtheora                                    David Rothenberger
> >>>> libvorbis                                    David Rothenberger
> >>>> rdiff-backup                                 David Rothenberger
> >>>> speex                                        David Rothenberger
> >>>> speexdsp                                     David Rothenberger
> >>>> vorbis-tools                                 David Rothenberger
> >>>> which                                        David Rothenberger
> >>>> whois                                        David Rothenberger
> >>>
> >>> Yes, I'm afraid it is.
> >>
> >> Done.  Thanks for all your work on these in the past.
> > 
> > Hi, I would like to take over the maintenance of:
> >>>> flac                                         David Rothenberger
> >>>> libao                                        David Rothenberger
> >>>> libogg                                       David Rothenberger
> >>>> libtheora                                    David Rothenberger
> >>>> libvorbis                                    David Rothenberger
> >>>> speex                                        David Rothenberger
> >>>> speexdsp                                     David Rothenberger
> >>>> vorbis-tools                                 David Rothenberger
> > if anyone would not.
> > 
> 
> Thanks. I added these to your packages.

Thanks!

> I generated missing packaging history repos for some of these from the 
> CTM history.  Please let me know if there's any errors or if you'd like 
> those removed.
> 
> I didn't check, but if any of these are no longer carried by recent 
> linux distros, maybe think about if it's actually useful to keep on 
> having a package for it...

All these packages are required by my other packages such as ffmpeg,
timidity++, pulseaudio, etc. except for vorbis-tools.
Also, these still exist in fedora rpms repos.

-- 
Takashi Yano <takashi.yano@nifty.ne.jp>