On Mon, Dec 05, 2016 at 01:21:04PM +0100, Hartmut Goebel wrote:
> * gnu/packages/python.scm (python-ipython-genutils)[description]: Add
> deprecation note.
> ---
>  gnu/packages/python.scm | 7 ++++++-
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/gnu/packages/python.scm b/gnu/packages/python.scm
> index 67022d2..66c297c 100644
> --- a/gnu/packages/python.scm
> +++ b/gnu/packages/python.scm
> @@ -4536,7 +4536,12 @@ standard library.")
>      (home-page "http://ipython.org";)
>      (synopsis "Vestigial utilities from IPython")
>      (description
> -     "This package provides retired utilities from IPython.")
> +     "This package provides retired utilities from IPython.  No packages 
> outside IPython/Jupyter should depend on it.
> +
> +This package shouldn't exist.  It contains some common utilities shared by
> +Jupyter and IPython projects during The Big Split.  As soon as possible, 
> those
> +packages will remove their dependency on this, and this package will go
> +away.")

LGTM. Can you add a TODO comment for those of us who periodically for
things to do? :)

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