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

[Andreas Tille]

Hi Ana,

On Sun, Sep 22, 2019 at 11:11:47PM +0200, Ana Guerrero Lopez wrote:
> > 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 ;)

I'm aware of this. ;-)
 
> 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...

OK, sorry for causing problems - and good to know that some qualified
user of unstable is spotting these in an early stage to (hopefully) not harm
the majority of users.

> 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.

I've now pushed a change to salsa[1] where I deactivated the whole 2to3
port and replaced the warning about the port by some other warning that
a port will be needed or the package will vanish.  Hopefully this might
attract some coders.  BTW, I fully agree with you that the code quality
might not be a good start.

I tried to start the build here but I get:

$ cycle 
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/cycle", line 213, in <module>
    app = MyApp(0)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/wx-3.0-gtk3/wx/_core.py", line 8628, in __init__
    self._BootstrapApp()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/wx-3.0-gtk3/wx/_core.py", line 8196, in _BootstrapApp
    return _core_.PyApp__BootstrapApp(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/bin/cycle", line 193, in OnInit
    ret=first_login()
  File "/usr/share/cycle/dialogs.py", line 304, in first_login
    users = get_users()
  File "/usr/share/cycle/dialogs.py", line 192, in get_users
    users.append((cPickle.loads(tmp[:n]), f))
ValueError: unsupported pickle protocol: 3


So I reverted to the Python2 version 0.3.1-14 (from testing) but I get
absolutely the same error.  I wonder whether my package is fine in terms
of "works as broken as before" or whether I messed up something else.

> Thanks for caring.

Thanks to you.  I'd be happy if you could check master[1] and confirm
that it is OK.  I can even give you commit permissions so you can change
anything you feel sensible and do the team upload yourself.

See you (hopefully some time - missed you at last DebConfs)

     Andreas.

[1] https://salsa.debian.org/med-team/cycle 

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