Unverified Commit f81034e5 authored by Tom Hunze's avatar Tom Hunze
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python3Packages.howdoi: drop 

howdoi has seen no upstream activity since October 2024 [1], with the
latest release dating back to October 2022 [2], and is broken with
Python 3.14 [3].

[1] https://github.com/gleitz/howdoi
[2] https://github.com/gleitz/howdoi/tree/v2.0.20
[3] https://hydra.nixos.org/build/324633453/nixlog/3
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pkgs/development/python-modules/howdoi/default.nix

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{

  lib,

  appdirs,

  buildPythonPackage,

  cachelib,

  colorama,

  cssselect,

  fetchFromGitHub,

  fetchpatch,

  keep,

  lxml,

  pygments,

  pyquery,

  requests,

  rich,

  pytestCheckHook,

  setuptools,

}:



buildPythonPackage rec {

  pname = "howdoi";

  version = "2.0.20";

  pyproject = true;



  src = fetchFromGitHub {

    owner = "gleitz";

    repo = "howdoi";

    tag = "v${version}";

    hash = "sha256-u0k+h7Sp2t/JUnfPqRzDpEA+vNXB7CpyZ/SRvk+B9t0=";

  };



  patches = [

    # Bad test case fix: comparing hardcoded string to internet search result

    # PR merged: https://github.com/gleitz/howdoi/pull/497

    # Please remove on the next release

    (fetchpatch {

      url = "https://github.com/gleitz/howdoi/commit/7d24e9e1c87811a6e66d60f504381383cf1ac3fd.patch";

      hash = "sha256-AFQMnMEijaExqiimbNaVeIRmZJ4Yj0nGUOEjfsvBLh8=";

    })

  ];



  build-system = [ setuptools ];



  dependencies = [

    appdirs

    cachelib

    colorama

    cssselect

    keep

    lxml

    pygments

    pyquery

    requests

    rich

  ];



  nativeCheckInputs = [ pytestCheckHook ];



  preCheck = ''

    export HOME=$(mktemp -d)

  '';



  disabledTests = [

    "test_colorize"

    # Tests are flaky, OSError: [Errno 24] Too many open files happens

    "test_answer_links_using_l_option"

    "test_answers_bing"

    "test_answers"

    "test_json_output"

    "test_missing_pre_or_code_query"

    "test_multiple_answers"

    "test_position"

    "test_unicode_answer"

  ];



  pythonImportsCheck = [ "howdoi" ];



  meta = {

    description = "Instant coding answers via the command line";

    homepage = "https://github.com/gleitz/howdoi";

    changelog = "https://github.com/gleitz/howdoi/blob/v${version}/CHANGES.txt";

    license = lib.licenses.mit;

    maintainers = [ ];

  };

}

pkgs/top-level/python-aliases.nix

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@@ -256,6 +256,7 @@ mapAliases { 
  hologram = throw "'hologram' has been removed as it was unmaintained upstream"; # Added 2026-03-22

  homeassistant-bring-api = throw "'homeassistant-bring-api' has been renamed to/replaced by 'bring-api'"; # Converted to throw 2025-10-29

  homepluscontrol = throw "'homepluscontrol' has been removed as it was unmaintained upstream"; # Added 2026-03-22

  howdoi = throw "'howdoi' has been removed as it was unmaintained upstream"; # Added 2026-04-19

  HTSeq = throw "'HTSeq' has been renamed to/replaced by 'htseq'"; # Converted to throw 2025-10-29

  IMAPClient = throw "'IMAPClient' has been renamed to/replaced by 'imapclient'"; # Converted to throw 2025-10-29

  inlinestyler = throw "inlinestyler has been removed because it is no longer maintained"; # added 2025-08-09

pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix

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  housekeeping = callPackage ../development/python-modules/housekeeping { };



























  howdoi = callPackage ../development/python-modules/howdoi { };



























  hpack = callPackage ../development/python-modules/hpack { };





























  hpccm = callPackage ../development/python-modules/hpccm { };