Re: Python (was: Merging core-updates?)

[Andreas Enge]

Am Sun, Feb 19, 2023 at 12:02:15PM +0100 schrieb Andreas Enge:
> PPS: On the first issue, the homepage says:
>    PyCrypto 2.x is unmaintained, obsolete, and contains security 
> vulnerabilities.
>       Building the following 6 packages would ensure 9 dependent packages are 
> rebuilt: python-miio@0.5.11 ledger-agent@0.9.0 electrum@4.3.2 eolie@0.9.101 
> jrnl@1.9.7 poezio@0.13.2

I am looking at these packages. One of them, ledger-agent, dates from 2017
and has seen 25 releases in the meantime. I can of course try to update it
(in main? core-updates?), but I am also wondering whether we have a
deprecation policy. This feels like a package nobody is interested in, and
it is demotivating to spend time fixing it... (Well, it is entirely possible
that flocks of users are still clinging on to a perfectly working old
version, but well!)

Andreas