[Python-apps-team] Bug#937009: Bug#937009: mercurial: Python2 removal in sid/bullseye

[Sandro Tosi]

Hey Julien,

On Thu, Apr 9, 2020 at 5:47 AM Julien Cristau <jcristau at debian.org> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Apr  9, 2020 at 01:17:06 -0400, Sandro Tosi wrote:
>
> > Hello Julien,
> >
> > On Tue, Feb 18, 2020 at 12:33 PM Julien Cristau <jcristau at debian.org> wrote:
> > > Before switching in sid I'd want to:
> > > - be able to use the python3 version myself
> > > - give extensions some time to figure out their own switch
> > > - ideally not regress significant functionality; e.g. python-subversion
> > >   is still not available for python3
> > >
> > > I don't know what that means in terms of timeframe, it may or may not
> > > happen in time for bullseye, but I'm also not in a rush and I'd rather
> > > not break stuff by switching too early.
> >
> > I see that python3-enabled mercurial has been in experimental for a 3
> > weeks now, how's it going? it would greatly help progress with the
> > overall py2removal effort if we could start planning to upload that
> > mercurial release to sid.
> >
> > Can you share with us your plans here?
> >
> Still need to coordinate with packaged extensions.

what happened to the python3 port that was uploaded in experimental as
part of 5.4-1+exp1 ? it seems it got lost when 5.4-2 was uploaded to
unstable? (btw debian/experimental in git doesnt seem to be up-to-date
with what reached the archived)

Do you need any help in coordinating with the packaged extensions,
testing changes, preparing patches? a lot of time has passed since we
started asking about mercurial and python3 and it is becoming the only
reverse-dependency of several packages that could be removed if
mercurial switched to py3k.

We're here to help and assist, just let us know how.

Cheers,
-- 
Sandro "morph" Tosi
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