[Slackbuilds-users] Drop the maintenance of python3-xdg

[Tonus]

Hi Jay,

Great it works fine ! 

Regards 

Le 6 août 2025 21:29:59 GMT+02:00, Jay Lanagan <j at lngn.net> a écrit :
>Hey all,
>
>I did some tests locally on using python3-xdg or using the renamed/updated project python3-xdg-base-dirs slackbuild instead with the gammastep slackbuild. The results were that it can happily use the newer renamed release.
>
>Since I elected to take the python3-xdg slackbuild, can I request it's removal? I plan to push a PR for gammastep to remove the dep on python3-xdg and replace it with python3-xdg-base-dirs instead. So once that move is completed, there will be no reason for this older version to exist.
>
>-Jay
>
>On 2025-07-29 17:17, Tonus wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> Hi Jay,
>> 
>> I updated i3expo-ng and patched the derecated dependency of python3-xdg
>> to switch to python3-xdg-base-dirs according to
>> https://pypi.org/project/xdg-base-dirs/ :
>> "xdg-base-dirs was previously named xdg, and was renamed due to an
>> import collision with PyXDG. If you used xdg prior to the rename, update
>> by changing the dependency name from xdg to xdg-base-dirs and the import
>> from xdg to xdg_base_dirs."
>> 
>> I will drop the maintenace of python3-xdg (that will not evolve anyway).
>> Since the only package that depends on it is gammastep, would you, Jay
>> take it ?
>