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

[Jon Turney <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk>]

On 18/04/2024 07:01, Ake Rehnman wrote:
> Den tors 28 mars 2024 kl 18:50 skrev Jon Turney <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk>:
>>
>> On 24/03/2024 17:46, Jon Turney via Cygwin-apps wrote:
>>> On 24/03/2024 17:31, Marco Atzeri via Cygwin-apps wrote:
>>>> On 24/03/2024 15:07, Jon Turney wrote:
>>>>> On 24/09/2023 13:32, Jon Turney via Cygwin-apps wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> I assume you are OK with the removal of python 3.5 (EOL Sept 2020)
>>>>> and 3.6 (EOL Dec 2021)?
>>>>>
>>>>> (I'm still dealing with cleaning up the final pieces of python27
>>>>> detritus, but these should hopefully be much smaller tasks)
>>>>>
>>>> nothing should depend from 3.5
>>>> not sure for 3.6
>>>
>>> I've automated some of the analysis I was doing for python2 packages and
>>> the results are now available at [1].
>>>
>>> So yeah, it looks like nothing uses 3.5.
>>>
>>> There are just a couple of packages using 3.6, I guess I'll ping the
>>> maintainers about those.
>>>
>>> [1] https://cygwin.com/packages/reports/python_rebuilds.html
>>
>> Ake,
> 
> Hi Jon, sorry for the late reply.

No problem.

>> Is it possible to update/rebuild libftdi1, which only publishes python
>> bindings for the soon-to-be removed python36?
> 
> I am not sure, I have not looked at it for so many years, I have not
> even used cygwin since I don't remember...
>>
>> (Or indicate that you are no longer interested in maintaining this
>> package, which will probably lead to it's removal).
> 
> Do you have any stats on how many installs it was last year?

I'm afraid we don't collect that information.

If you are not using it anymore, it seems like the logical thing to do 
is orphan this package (and libconfuse, it's dependency, your only other 
package).

Thanks for your work in the past.