Re: Remove a bunch of old Python packages

[Benny Siegert <bsiegert%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Fri, 5 Dec 2025, Greg Troxel wrote:

> Benny Siegert <bsiegert%netbsd.org@localhost> writes:
>
> > 1. Do not remove them now.
> > 2. Mention in the release notes of 2025Q4 that this is the last branch
> > containing these modules.
> > 3. Remove them after the branch.
>
> I object to 2, as it is implicitly adding a new rule that we should
> announce removals in release notes before they happen.  That's in
> general not reasonable; were it January 15th, what Adam did would have
> been 100% ok and in line with our documented policy and actual practice.
> These packages are not important and likely there are zero users.  The
> notice has been on pkgsrc-users, which is where it's supposed to go.

That's fair. I did not mean to introduce a new rule here. Rather, since we 
agreed (I think) to remove these after the branch, it would make sense to 
add something to the release notes. But we don't have to -- I doubt any of 
these packages have actual users.

--
Benny