Hi, It looks like pypi modules that are obsolete with python 3.8 have been dropped from Factory, examples are importlib-metadata (and maybe also cursive). importlib-metadata has a pretty drastic impact on anything older than factory/python 3.8, as it is a dependency of many modules. We now have over 1000 unresolvables on any released distribution, which breaks quite a lot, including community work that is now entirely blocked because we managed to break older distros completely (again). I am wondering what the intentions here are, and whether we could come to a solution that does have less drastic impact on users of the python stack. we could a) patch the backports repo to have a :only_backports build path that includes those dropped packages again b) readd libraries that don't hurt but are necessary for older distros again to factory (my understanding is that factory-first also means that we are consolidating efforts in factory) c) fix more than 1000 upstream libraries to no longer use importlib-metadata Any preference? TIA, Dirk-- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-python+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-python+owner@opensuse.org