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[PATCH 2/3] gnu: python-ipython-genutils: Update description.


From: Hartmut Goebel
Subject: [PATCH 2/3] gnu: python-ipython-genutils: Update description.
Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2016 13:21:04 +0100

* gnu/packages/python.scm (python-ipython-genutils)[description]: Add
deprecation note.
---
 gnu/packages/python.scm | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/gnu/packages/python.scm b/gnu/packages/python.scm
index 67022d2..66c297c 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/python.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/python.scm
@@ -4536,7 +4536,12 @@ 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
-- 
2.7.4




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