[Debconf-devel] Bug#709198: Bug#709198: debconf: should not use python in maintainer scripts

[Ivo De Decker]

Control: tags -1 stretch-ignore

Hi,

On Sun, Jan 29, 2017 at 06:13:10PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 29, 2017 at 06:04:09PM +0000, Simon McVittie wrote:
> > On Sat, 18 May 2013 at 23:29:22 +0200, Richard Hartmann wrote:
> > > Broken Python upgrade left me without working debconf.
> > 
> > I can't help thinking that this would be a lot more robust if debconf.deb
> > (which is pseudo-Essential) didn't ship language bindings for a
> > non-Essential programming language. perl-base and sh are Essential,
> > but python (even the -minimal flavour) isn't.
> 
> Yes, I think this is probably the best fix.  I've been putting it off
> because it's somewhat tedious to rearrange everything, but you're quite
> right.
> 
> > According to <https://codesearch.debian.net/search?q=import+debconf> and
> > <https://codesearch.debian.net/search?q=from+debconf+import>, if
> > debconf.py was split out into python-debconf and python3-debconf as per
> > <https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/python-policy/>,
> > the only packages that would need changes (RC bug + versioned Breaks)
> > would be apt-listchanges and greylistd.
> 
> Also at least ubiquity in Ubuntu.  It ought to be possible to change all
> of the rdepends first so that the impact is minimal.
> 
> > That seems maybe a worthwhile thing to do post-stretch?
> 
> Yep.

OK. This kind of change shouldn't happen in stretch at this point, so tagging
this -ignore.

Cheers,

Ivo