[Buildroot] [PATCH] python-pyxml: remove obsolete package

Yegor Yefremov yegorslists at googlemail.com
Fri Dec 18 22:31:22 UTC 2015


On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 10:45 PM, Thomas Petazzoni
<thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Fri, 18 Dec 2015 22:40:21 +0100, Yann E. MORIN wrote:
>
>> I usually agree that we first mark package as being deprecated before we
>> get rid of them.
>>
>> However, python-pyxml is so old, its features have long been incoporated
>> into python stdlib. Probably not many people are using it, if any at
>> all.
>>
>> So, I'd vote in favour of just removing it altogether right now.
>
> Fine with me. Yegor, can you respin your patch then with
> Config.in.legacy handling?

I'll respin the patch.

> It would have been good to hear from Clayton to know why he added this
> package in May 2015. I think it might have been at some point a
> dependency of some SELinux stuff, but even the pending SELinux patches
> don't make any reference to it. The only reference I could find was in
> the changelog of one of the patches, which says:
>
> """
>   - Remove dependancy on host-python-pyxml (Ryan B.)
> """
>
> But the current python-pyxml package only implements the target
> variant. So, /me confused.
>
> Clayton, Ryan?
>
>
>
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> Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons
> Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
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