Python 3.5 and 3.6 removal (was Re: Bonfire of the Packages)

[David Rothenberger]

On 3/28/2024 10:50 AM, Jon Turney via Cygwin-apps wrote:
> On 24/03/2024 17:46, Jon Turney via Cygwin-apps wrote:
>> On 24/03/2024 17:31, Marco Atzeri via Cygwin-apps wrote:
>>> On 24/03/2024 15:07, Jon Turney wrote:
>>>> On 24/09/2023 13:32, Jon Turney via Cygwin-apps wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I assume you are OK with the removal of python 3.5 (EOL Sept 2020) 
>>>> and 3.6 (EOL Dec 2021)?
>>>>
>>>> (I'm still dealing with cleaning up the final pieces of python27 
>>>> detritus, but these should hopefully be much smaller tasks)
>>>>
>>> nothing should depend from 3.5
>>> not sure for 3.6
>>
>> I've automated some of the analysis I was doing for python2 packages 
>> and the results are now available at [1].
>>
>> So yeah, it looks like nothing uses 3.5.
>>
>> There are just a couple of packages using 3.6, I guess I'll ping the 
>> maintainers about those.
>>
>> [1] https://cygwin.com/packages/reports/python_rebuilds.html
> David,
> 
> Is it possible to update/rebuild rdiff-backup, which replies upon the 
> soon-to-be removed python36?
> 
> (Or indicate that you are no longer interested in maintaining this 
> package, which will probably lead to it's removal).

Please remove me as the maintainer from that package. I no longer use 
it, and no longer have an environment for building packages for Cygwin.

Thanks,
David

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