[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#940902: doesn't read the data

[Ana Guerrero Lopez]

Hi Andreas,

On Sat, Sep 21, 2019 at 06:39:51PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:
> Control: tags -1 help
> 
> Dear Ana,
> 
> On Sat, Sep 21, 2019 at 05:41:27PM +0200, Ana Guerrero Lopez wrote:
> > This new version of cycle, ported to python3, doesn't read the data file
> > ( under .cycle) and prompts to create a new user.
> > 
> > Not creating a new user and downgrading to the version in buster (-14), allows
> > to continue using the application with the previous data.
> 
> thanks a lot for thorough testing the package!
> 
> The situation is as follows:  Upstream is dead so we probably become
> upstream in Debian.  I has done my best to port it to Python3 with the
> help of Debian Python team.  I personally can not do more.  I can just
> hope that someone who is using the program will try to fix it.  If you
> feel able to do this it would be great.  If you know somebody who could
> do it great as well.  I'd be really happy if we could keep the package
> inside Debian and if someone could fix it.

I used to maintain this package, so I'm well aware of the problems, check
the changelog ;)

The package should be removed from the archive, the base code is very poor to
start with, and the patching for python3 isn't going to fix this, just add
more problems...
Your current python3 porting is not helping here since many people will start
the application, will be prompted for a new user, will create it and erase
all their data. So please, revert your changes and if that means the package
will be removed from the archive, let it be. At least people will be able to
continue using it while they move to something else (or not), but won't lose
their data as it'll happen now.

Thanks for caring.

cheers,
Ana