[Slackbuilds-users] remove wheel slackbuild

Arnaud arnaud.garcia-fernandez at laposte.net
Sun Apr 30 16:40:54 UTC 2023


> > With everything switched to python3-wheel, the wheel slackbuild can now be
> > removed.
> 
> i'll keep them for a week and remove them if no reports of scripts broken
> 
> -- 
> Willy Sudiarto Raharjo
> 

Well, there's no python2-wheel.
It looks fine because it seems it mostly is an shell executable, so whatever
Python version is used should be ok.

But...

python2-automat builds with python3-wheel with this message :

WARNING: The wheel package is not available.
DEPRECATION: Python 2.7 reached the end of its life on January 1st, 2020. Please
upgrade your Python as Python 2.7 is no longer maintained. A future version of
pip will drop support for Python 2.7. More details about Python 2 support in
pip, can be found at
https://pip.pypa.io/en/latest/development/release-process/#python-2-support

Which looks like its making a call to pip, but not installing wheel, and not
seeming to do much.
The package builds fine.
Keeping the old wheel package there removes the warning, and the
python2-Automat package builds... well exactly the same.
Removing all wheel packages, old and python3-wheel, well, doesn't change
anything, the warning is there, the package builds fine.

Anyway, this does not seem that big a problem, but I guess we could just drop
the python3-wheel requirement altogether, since it builds the same.

My whole not very useful point being that we might see some problems with the
removal of python2 version of wheel.

But...

I don't care, and all python2 packages should be removed, or presenting
themselves at the morgue soon ^^

But... (again, I know)

A package like python2-automat is used by python2-twisted, itself used by :
Nevow TaskCoach python2-txaio Parsley txi2p Scrapy python2-orbited sslstrip
python2-klein txrequests txsocksx graphite-carbon foolscap

Most of which are probable outdated, not really maintained, and might not work
at all, but will require some work to know what's what, ask for people to update
and step up as maintainers, or be removed (then I may at last kill
python2-twisted and be rid of that old stuff).

Cheers :)

	- Yth / Arnaud.

PS : on a side note, problems might appear at a very late time, because the old
wheel package is not removed by the name change, therefore the python2 wheel
will stay in many slackware box used by real people, masking any problem that
might arise.
So things will break, but I think those things are either already broken, or
needs to be updated.


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