On Sun, 30 Aug 2009 12:14:53 +0300
Petteri Räty <betelge...@gentoo.org> wrote:

> Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis wrote:
> > Python 2.4 is deprecated. There are plans to mask for removal it when
> > remaining packages incompatible with Python 2.5 are fixed.
> > (We will announce masking of Python 2.4 at least 1 month before masking it.)
> > 
> > Please don't add new packages to the tree which work only with Python 2.4.
> > 
> > If you want to add a package which depends on a Python module, which had 
> > been
> > maintained separately in the past, but has been also included in Python 2.5,
> > then don't add this Python module to the tree only for use with Python 2.4,
> > but instead depend on Python >=2.5.
> > 
> 
> Where's the CC and Reply-To to gentoo-dev? Does removing python 2.4 have
> any effect on the upgrade path for old installations?

Any upgrade path was destroyed when all python versions (including 2.4) moved
to EAPI != 0.


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