David Brownlee <abs%absd.org@localhost> writes:
> In the interests of not having python3.9 installed on my system just
> for building thunderbird I took a pass through to patch the old style
> collections import to collections.abc ("New in version 3.3!")
>
> We have a ... quite old version of thunderbird in pkgsrc, and I'm sure
> this is all resolved in newer versions, but would anyone object to the
> attached being committed?
With pkgsrc contributor hat on only, I'm mixed.
on the minus side:
I end up building lots of stuff as build deps, use bin-install as
DEPENDS_TARGET and pkgin ar afterwards. python doesn't seem super big
compared to thunderbird. There are a bunch of new patches and that will
perhaps make an update harder.
on the plus:
I see your point, and it really doesn't seem to have any real
downsides.
With branch manager hat on, I don't see this as a change that is out of
line per /quarterly. Just the usual obligation for any change at all to
have no unresolved breakage by freeze stat, and this doesn't worry me.
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