[Pkg-mailman-hackers] Bug#940865: mailman3: Depends on incorrect version of python3

[Pierre-Elliott Bécue]

Pierre-Elliott Bécue <peb at debian.org> wrote on 21/02/2020 at 22:49:19+0200:

> [[PGP Signed Part:Signature made by expired key 29BFA0D079290ACA Pierre-Elliott Bécue <becue at crans.org>]]
> Control: tags -1 +wontfix
> Control: severity -1 normal
>
> Le samedi 21 septembre 2019 à 05:44:30+0200, noone at openend.se a écrit :
>> Source: mailman3
>> Version: 3.2.2-1
>> Severity: important
>> 
>> Dear Maintainer,
>> 
>> mailman3 has a depends python3:all
>> This version of mailman uses importlib.resources, which is only
>> available in python 3.7, or later.
>> 
>> The mailman command fails to start, rendering the entire package
>> useless, if you have an older version of python3 installed.
>> 
>> -- System Information:
>> Debian Release: 9.11
>>   APT prefers oldstable
>>   APT policy: (990, 'oldstable'), (500, 'oldstable-updates'), (500, 'testing')
>> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
>> 
>> Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-9-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
>> Locale: LANG=sv_SE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=sv_SE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
>> (ignored: LC_ALL set to sv_SE.UTF-8), LANGUAGE=sv_SE.UTF-8
>> (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to sv_SE.UTF-8)
>> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
>> Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
>
> Hi,
>
> Thanks for your bug report.
>
> mailman3 version 3.2.2-1 won't enter oldstable, and there is no ground
> to make it depend on python3 >= 3.7.
>
> The only version available in stretch is the stretch-backports one,
> which is mailman 3.2.0-4, which doesn't rely on importlib.resources.
>
> With best regards,

Closing,
-- 
PEB
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