[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#858053: python3-cutadapt: Please read the official cutadapt changelog and add `xopen` in the package dependences. Thank you!

[Andreas Tille]

Hi again Fedor,

I'd like to make my question to you urgent:  I have packaged
python-xopen and I was able to convince ftpmaster to accept it
quickly.  So the chance to solve this bug in Stretch with good
arguments to convince the release team is given.  However, your
"please read the docs" is not a good argument.  Please rather
provide a test case that proves that the current cutadapt is
non-functional in relevant use cases.

Please always keep in mind that Debian maintainers like me do
not necessarily work with the packages we are maintaining and
need the help of users like you in cases like this.

Kind regards

       Andreas.

On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 09:10:02PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote:
> Hi Fedor,
> 
> thanks a lot for the important hint.
> 
> On Sat, Mar 18, 2017 at 12:41:12AM +0600, Fedor Goncharov wrote:
> > Package: python3-cutadapt
> > Version: 1.12-1
> > Severity: normal
>             ^^^^^^ 
> 
> > Latest cutadapt (since 1.12) didn't work without xopen package.
> 
> If you say "didn't work" this would rather be severity
> 
>    grave: makes the package in question unusable or mostly so
> 
> Please confirm this and I'll rise the severity to make sure
> this fix make it into Stretch.
> 
> Kind regards
> 
>      Andreas.
> 
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