[Python-modules-team] Bug#938528: sphinx: Python2 removal in sid/bullseye

[Sandro Tosi]

On Fri, Mar 27, 2020 at 10:58 AM Dmitry Shachnev <mitya57 at debian.org> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Mar 27, 2020 at 05:41:25PM +0300, Dmitry Shachnev wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 27, 2020 at 09:55:51AM -0400, Sandro Tosi wrote:
> > > according to http://sandrotosi.me/debian/py2removal/python-sphinx_1.svg
> > > there's only one rdep left (and they've been warned already, #953949)
> > > so maybe we can start by dropping python-sphinx in unstable still
> > > maintaining 1.8.5 while we work towards uploading 2.4.3?
> > >
> > > I can take care of the dropping part, as it's generally pretty quick,
> > > but let me know what you think
> >
> > I don't mind. Feel free to do it, or I will do it myself in a couple of days.
> >
> > It should be mostly backporting 1dec718f4f501eab7cd806412a29536ad9dcfed8
> > from debian/master to debian/sid, also you can drop python2_* patches.

i've backported 1dec718f4f501eab7cd806412a29536ad9dcfed8 and uploaded
1.8.5-8 - python-sphinx was keeping a lot of python2 packages in (it
was, in fact, at the top of the list) so i'd rather drop it soon :)

> Though even if xapian-bindings is fixed, sphinx won't be able to migrate to
> testing because of pymongo.
>
> It may need backporting
> https://github.com/mongodb/mongo-python-driver/commit/da778c501761f9c7.

i'll have a look at it


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