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authorHartmut Goebel <h.goebel@crazy-compilers.com>2016-12-05 12:13:15 +0100
committerHartmut Goebel <h.goebel@crazy-compilers.com>2016-12-06 11:29:37 +0100
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gnu: python-ipython-genutils: Update description.
* gnu/packages/python.scm (python-ipython-genutils)[description]: Add deprecation note and TODO comment.
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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