On Saturday, August 24, 2019 6:28:10 PM EDT Thomas Goirand wrote: > Hi, > > I came across python-xattr, which I know well because it's used in > Swift. I went to investigate it's reverse dependencies, and discovered > that it's py2 version is only used by calendarserver, which itself, is > py2 only upstream, and is full of py2-ism that would need to be fixed > (and the work is really non-trivial and huge). > > Since we decided to work on leaf packages only, what to do in this case, > as it doesn't look like calendarserver will be fixed anytime soon? Shall > we wait? For how long? I've of course filed a bug against > calendarserver, but I'm quite sure this wont be enough to get things moving. > > Please, let's generalize and see the whole picture. There will be A LOT > more cases like this one, and I don't think that waiting forever will > solve the situation. It is my opinion that we should set a kind of > policy (ie: wait for how long?) and then act...
If it were me, I'd go ahead and file a serious bug indicating a dependency of the package is about to be removed. Scott K
