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[Ben Harper <ben.harper@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

It has been over two weeks and we have yet to anyone wanting to keep the 
python26 modules.  As of today, we will EOL the following python26 modules:

python26-lxml
python26-jsonschema
python26-memcached
python26-elixir

These packages will still be available in the archive repos.

-Ben

On 09/18/2014 01:38 PM, BJ Dierkes wrote:
> The incompatibilities with Python 2.6 -> 2.7 are pretty minimal, and 
> most modern software targets 2.7+.  If nothing notable depends on 
> python26, then I am fully in support of dropping python26 packages in 
> favor of python27, which people should be using anyway.
>
> ---
> BJ Dierkes
> Data Folk Labs, LLC
>
> From: Ben Harper <ben.harper@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
> <mailto:ben.harper@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reply: Ben Harper <ben.harper@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>> 
> <mailto:ben.harper@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: September 18, 2014 at 1:31:22 PM
> To: ius-community@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> <ius-community@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>> 
> <mailto:ius-community@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: [Ius-community] future of python26-lxml and other 
> python26 modules
>
> > On 09/15/2014 11:54 AM, Ben Harper wrote:
> > > Greetings,
> > >
> > > With the new release of the lxml module[0], it now requires a newer
> > > version of libxslt(-devel) than what Red Hat provides in EL 5.
> > > Typically, IUS does not want to build a whole chain of dependencies,
> > > as we want our packages built off stock EL. We have had made
> > > exceptions in the past if it is worth the effort. Please note if IUS
> > > were to build a libxslt27u package, manually steps would been needed
> > > to upgrade libxslt to libxslt27u as IUS packages do not obsolete stock
> > > packages.
> > >
> > > I am trying to determine if there is still a need for this package.
> > > Since Python 2.6 has been EOL'd since October 29, 2013[1], should we
> > > just EOL all python26 modules (python26-elixir, python26-jsonschema,
> > > python26-lxml and python26-memcached)?
> > >
> > > Please let us know if you use any of the python26 modules, if you feel
> > > we should EOL them or if you have other ideas on how we should 
> > proceed.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Ben and the rest of the IUS covedev team
> > >
> > >
> > > [0] https://pypi.python.org/pypi/lxml/3.4.0
> > > [1] https://www.python.org/download/releases/2.6.9/
> > >
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> > We are going to give a two week window for comments. If we don't hear
> > anything by September 29th, we will proceed with EOLing the python26
> > modules.
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Ben and the rest of the IUS covedev team
> >
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