Bug 1642470

Are you willing to maintain it?

I maintain an EPEL-only stub package named python2-matplotlib which contains nothing but a dependency on python-matplotlib.  It was retired and blocked on rawhide.  It was briefly unretired on rawhide and then immediately orphaned, so it was removed.

If you want to maintain python2-matplotlib in Fedora then great, we can get it unblocked and you can go about the business of keeping it working.  But I'm certainly not going to do it, because I never wanted it to exist in Fedora at all.  I recall there was a call for someone to maintain this previously which received no response but maybe the alternative (remove packages like python2-ipython) will be enough to get someone to step up.

(In reply to Jason Tibbitts from comment #1)
> Are you willing to maintain it?
> 
> I maintain an EPEL-only stub package named python2-matplotlib which contains
> nothing but a dependency on python-matplotlib.  It was retired and blocked
> on rawhide.  It was briefly unretired on rawhide and then immediately
> orphaned, so it was removed.
> 
> If you want to maintain python2-matplotlib in Fedora then great, we can get
> it unblocked and you can go about the business of keeping it working.  But
> I'm certainly not going to do it, because I never wanted it to exist in
> Fedora at all.  I recall there was a call for someone to maintain this
> previously which received no response but maybe the alternative (remove
> packages like python2-ipython) will be enough to get someone to step up.

Since there doesn't seem to be anyone else - can you add me as a maintainer of the package? FAS: ellert

(In reply to Mattias Ellert from Bug #1641797, comment #11)
> I saw the call. I was hoping someone more directly affected would pick it
> up. I maintain a package that depend on a package that depends on it, so I
> am a bit peripheral to the issue.
> 
> If there is noone else I can do it, but I do think that someone who use the
> package more regularly or maintain a package that directly depend on it
> would be able to do a better job.

Maintaining it shouldn't be much of a problem. It's just that the lack of *any* response so far from affected packagers (other than "OK, remove it") puts it very low on anyone's priority/motivation list.
IMO, "orphaned" would be the perfect state for a package that no one cares about, except people that just need more time to stop depending on it.

I've added ellert as a maintainer for the python2-matplotlib package.  It will still need to be unblocked in order for a build to be done.  I can help with that if you need me to do so.

Thank you Mattias that you'll take care of the package. I am not the right person to do so because we would like to remove the whole Python 2 stack from Fedora 30+ but it should happen to each package in the right time when nothing depends on it.

(In reply to Jason Tibbitts from comment #4)
> I've added ellert as a maintainer for the python2-matplotlib package.  It
> will still need to be unblocked in order for a build to be done.  I can help
> with that if you need me to do so.

I have files an unblock request with releng, but if you can speed it up it would be great.

https://pagure.io/releng/issue/7888

releng is going to be a bit swamped for the next few days with the F29 release, so you'll need to give it a bit of time.

For some reason the build was untagged. I have reopened the releng ticket.
https://pagure.io/releng/issue/7888

It is back again - hopefully more permanently.