python-platformdirs disappeared

[dhensen]

brew gist-logs <formula> link OR brew config AND brew doctor output

Error: No available formula with the name "python-platformdirs". Did you mean python-toml?

Verification

• My "brew doctor output" says Your system is ready to brew. and am still able to reproduce my issue.
• I ran brew update and am still able to reproduce my issue.
• I have resolved all warnings from brew doctor and that did not fix my problem.
• I searched for recent similar issues at https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/issues?q=is%3Aissue and found no duplicates.

What were you trying to do (and why)?

install python-platformdirs, earlier today I ran brew doctor and I cleaned up all warnings, that led me to uninstall python-platformdirs as doctor told me to do so. I'm a brew noob. Now python needs python-platformdirs and I'm not able to install it.

Also, this page gives 404: https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/python-platformdirs

I can't find any information about the package being deleted or deprecation warning etc.
No info on this page either: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/pkgs/container/core%2Fpython-platformdirs

what's going on?

What happened (include all command output)?

python-platformdirs is not available

What did you expect to happen?

python-platformdirs will be installed

Step-by-step reproduction instructions (by running brew commands)

brew install python-platformdirs

[dhensen]

I found this: 88078ab

#163603

Why was it removed?

[dhensen]

Same for python-distlib 6ab3c74

What is going on, why is stuff being deleted?

Feels like important dependencies are breaking: https://xkcd.com/2347/

[dhensen]

@cho-m Can you please help out in resolving this? thanks in advance

[dhensen]

I'm not sure if I'm drawing the right conclusion.. i'm a brew noob, coming from linux to osx. Not having the greatest experience, maybe I need to RTFM, but this is my issue after uninstalling python-platformdirs:

But now I'm doubting if this is a homebrew issue, because it says it's going to use 3.9.18 to create a virtualenv (this version is pyenv managed) but then it proceeds to show 3.11 in the traceback...

[cho-m]

The removals are intentional as decided in #157500.

Homebrew will not be supporting python- formulae for libraries unless they meet requirement for exception - Homebrew/brew#16662

There should be nothing that needs these formulae anymore in homebrew-core. You may need to brew upgrade or brew reinstall <formula> if you have any old references on your system.

[dhensen]

I'm not knowledgeable enough on brew to properly respond to this, but this situation is leaving my python stuff in a messed up situation, that can't be good. I solved all brew doctor issues. I even ran brew list | xargs brew reinstall, because I'm not sure how I can query which packages have old references... so lets install all was my reasoning.

Eventually I solved my pipenv issue by doing:

pip3.11 install platformdirs
pip3.11 install distlib

But I don't understand why I should be installing these by myself, while before it was done for me, by brew? Leaving this comment here for people who come searching for the same issue.