From 2d3f108bb67a3f2cefaa538e86a2f82f1387d20d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Peder Bergebakken Sundt <pbsds@hotmail.com>
Date: Sat, 7 Jun 2025 04:10:27 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] maintainers/scripts/remove-old-aliases: handle `inherit (x)
 y;`

Man this script is not very nice
---
 maintainers/scripts/remove-old-aliases.py | 40 ++++++++++++++++-------
 1 file changed, 28 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

diff --git a/maintainers/scripts/remove-old-aliases.py b/maintainers/scripts/remove-old-aliases.py
index fcef5c58a631..78a2fb0ab6ac 100755
--- a/maintainers/scripts/remove-old-aliases.py
+++ b/maintainers/scripts/remove-old-aliases.py
@@ -70,7 +70,10 @@ def get_date_lists(
         ):
             continue
 
-        if "=" not in line:
+        if line.lstrip().startswith("inherit (") and ";" in line:
+            if not only_throws:
+                date_older_list.append(line)
+        elif "=" not in line:
             date_sep_line_list.append(f"{lineno:>5} {line}")
         # 'if' lines could be complicated
         elif "if " in line and "if =" not in line:
@@ -99,18 +102,31 @@ def convert_to_throw(date_older_list: list[str]) -> list[tuple[str, str]]:
     converted_list = []
     for line in date_older_list.copy():
         indent: str = " " * (len(line) - len(line.lstrip()))
-        before_equal = ""
-        after_equal = ""
-        try:
-            before_equal, after_equal = (x.strip() for x in line.split("=", maxsplit=2))
-        except ValueError as err:
-            print(err, line, "\n")
-            date_older_list.remove(line)
-            continue
 
-        alias = before_equal
-        alias_unquoted = before_equal.strip('"')
-        replacement = next(x.strip(";:") for x in after_equal.split())
+        if "=" not in line:
+            assert "inherit (" in line
+            before, sep, after = line.partition("inherit (")
+            inside, sep, after = after.partition(")")
+            if not sep:
+                print(f"FAILED ON {line}")
+                continue
+            alias, *_ = after.strip().split(";")[0].split()
+            replacement = f"{inside.strip()}.{alias}"
+
+        else:
+            before_equal = ""
+            after_equal = ""
+            try:
+                before_equal, after_equal = (x.strip() for x in line.split("=", maxsplit=2))
+            except ValueError as err:
+                print(err, line, "\n")
+                date_older_list.remove(line)
+                continue
+
+            alias = before_equal
+            replacement = next(x.strip(";:") for x in after_equal.split())
+
+        alias_unquoted = alias.strip('"')
         replacement = replacement.removeprefix("pkgs.")
 
         converted = (