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| -rw-r--r-- | gnu/packages/python.scm | 9 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/gnu/packages/python.scm b/gnu/packages/python.scm index 67022d27fb..d51dd4b9e0 100644 --- a/gnu/packages/python.scm +++ b/gnu/packages/python.scm @@ -4520,6 +4520,7 @@ standard library.") (package-with-python2 python-simplegeneric)) (define-public python-ipython-genutils + ;; TODO: This package is retired, check if can be removed, see description. (package (name "python-ipython-genutils") (version "0.1.0") @@ -4536,7 +4537,13 @@ standard library.") (home-page "http://ipython.org") (synopsis "Vestigial utilities from IPython") (description - "This package provides retired utilities from IPython.") + "This package provides retired utilities from IPython. No packages +outside IPython/Jupyter should depend on it. + +This package shouldn't exist. It contains some common utilities shared by +Jupyter and IPython projects during The Big Split. As soon as possible, those +packages will remove their dependency on this, and this package will go +away.") (license license:bsd-3))) (define-public python2-ipython-genutils |