Re: Remove a bunch of old Python packages

[Todd Gruhn <tgruhn2%gmail.com@localhost>]

If I do cvs up -Pd ...
Will pkgsrc advantage of this?

On Sat, Dec 6, 2025 at 9:03 AM Benny Siegert <bsiegert%netbsd.org@localhost> wrote:
>
> 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