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by Foxboron 2093 days ago
>strangely, I wonder if arch linux might be the counterpoint to all this. You might just do continuous maintenance all the time instead of one-giant-upheaval-update every few years.

Evidently, one of the people mentioned in the calibre blogpost helping the python3 migration is an Arch Linux contributor :)
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doubleunplussed 2093 days ago
Eli Schwartz is an absolute treasure. Because Arch strongly prefers to ship unmodified upstream projects, Eli pops up all over the place fixing bugs upstream.

I've been using his Arch repo shipping Calibre with Python 3 for I think over a year. My system is updating to Calibre 5 from the main repos as we speak, so I guess I'll remove the custom repo now.

Now I'm only waiting for the Kodi 19 release before Python 2 will be gone from my system forever...

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Foxboron 2093 days ago
>Eli Schwartz is an absolute treasure. Because Arch strongly prefers to ship unmodified upstream projects, Eli pops up all over the place fixing bugs upstream.

Not to diminish the work of Eli, but several Arch package maintainers end up bugfixing upstream projects to keep sources unpatched. Personally done upstream contributions to several upstreams I maintain in the distribution :)

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doubleunplussed 2093 days ago
Of course! I happen to see Eli all over the place, but many others as well.

(I'm not an Arch TU or dev, but I also contribute upstream fixes for AUR packages I maintain)

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