[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#845982: Please clarify several issues with cwltool

[Andreas Tille]

On Fri, Dec 09, 2016 at 01:18:04PM +0000, Michael Crusoe wrote:
> >   1. Patch to not use python-typing.
> >      Why this?  Adding the package to Build-Depends would be cheap
> 
> At some point the python2 typing package went away?

No idea but according to

$ apt-cache policy python-typing
python-typing:
  Installiert:           3.5.2.2-1
  Installationskandidat: 3.5.2.2-1
  Versionstabelle:
 *** 3.5.2.2-1 501
        501 http://httpredir.debian.org/debian testing/main amd64 Packages
         50 http://httpredir.debian.org/debian unstable/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

everything seems to be fine. 
 
> >   2. Lagging behind upstream.
> >      Are there any reasons?
> 
> Yes, only py2 compat and I wanted to add py3 before updating :-P

Hmmm, but we want to have latest upstream in Stretch (no matter what
Python version), right?
 
> >   3. I injected latest upstream (1.0.20161207161158) in my local Git
> >      repository
> >       * cwltest is now separate - do we want to package it as well?
> 
> Yes please

I injected

    https://anonscm.debian.org/git/debian-med/cwltest.git

Please take over from here since you are the expert.  And please make
this of high priority if we want to feed the latest and greatest code
into Stretch.

> >       * after removing it from set of requriements I was running into
> >
> > Download error on https://pypi.python.org/simple/schema-salad/: [Errno
> > -3] Temporary failure in name resolution -- Some packages may not be found!
> > Couldn't retrieve index page for 'schema-salad'
> > Scanning index of all packages (this may take a while)
> > Reading https://pypi.python.org/simple/
> > Download error on https://pypi.python.org/simple/: [Errno -3] Temporary
> > failure in name resolution -- Some packages may not be found!
> > No local packages or working download links found for
> > schema-salad<2,>=1.21.20161206204028
> > error: Could not find suitable distribution for Requirement.parse('schema-
> > salad<2,>=1.21.20161206204028')
> 
> Yes, schema salad also needs to be updated

Done.
 
> >   4. Continuing with python-schema-salad I noticed that it is lagging
> >      behind as welland it is now >= 2 (2.0.20161122040508)
> 
> *sigh* please ignore the 2.x series of schema salad -- that was not my doing

I excluded 2.x series from d/watch - please find a more sensible
solution for the future since I consider this hackish.
 
> > I do not feel competent to decide what version is fit for Debian 9.  If
> > we do nothing cwltool is out - so IMHO we should urgently upgrade all
> > needed packages but I have no idea what might be the right procedure.
> >
> > Michael, could you please take over (and thus join the advent calendar
> > effort ;-))

I admit I basically ignored cwl related packages since I assumed you
would care for the code where you are upstream.  Please let us know if
you have reasons for not beeing able to care.  We happily help to have
the recent code without bugs in Stretch but we need more information
from you to take action.

Kind regards

     Andreas.


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