[aur-requests] [PRQ#36723] Deletion Request for python2-gcp-devrel-py-tools
MarsSeed [1] filed a deletion request for python2-gcp-devrel-py-tools [2]: Please kindly delete this Python 2 package. It is not needed by anything. I've originally imported it to AUR together with python2-urllib3, because this was in the latter's checkdepends() array. I've since realized that it is not mandatory for testing. URLlib3 1.26.11 still has its built-in support for running on Google AppEngine via gcp-devrel-py-tools and using its Python2-only 'URLFetch' service, but this feature has not seen much development during the last few years. [a] Google AppEngine support has been removed from the main branch for the upcoming URLlib3 v2.0 release, because the latter project is about to drop Python 2 altogether. [b] Anyway, this deprecated support was only used if running python- urllib3 with Python 2 on Google AppEngine itself. I am not sure if it is possible to run Arch Linux on it, as it seems it is a Platform-as- a-Service (PaaS) having its own OS. Also, Python 2 is deprecated so Google's cloud platforms are in the process of phasing it out for good. The gcp-devrel-py-tools project seems to have been neglected / unmaintained by Google since 2020. [c] It is not officially deprecated yet, but there are already byte- compilation errors at least when building with Python 2.7. All in all, it's best to delete this package. [a] https://github.com/urllib3/urllib3/commits/1.26.11/src/urllib3/contrib/appen... [b] https://github.com/urllib3/urllib3/commit/6af53ac41757399607382bf10a92b288fd... [c] https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/python-repo-tools [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/MarsSeed/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/python2-gcp-devrel-py-tools/
Request #36723 has been Accepted by alex19EP [1]: [Autogenerated] Accepted deletion for python2-gcp-devrel-py-tools. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/alex19EP/
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