[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#937177: obitools: Python2 removal in sid/bullseye

[Andreas Tille]

On Sat, Mar 07, 2020 at 07:50:37AM +0100, olivier sallou wrote:
> > I cannot reproduce this bug when building inside a clean schroot
> > (unstable).  I don't know if the reason is because I don't have
> > python3.7 installed in the schroot anymore (it was removed recently, and
> > python3.8 is the default), or because there's something else different.

Works for me know.

> I pushed in february during our sprint some updates in git fixing the
> issue. However it implied lots of modification that may impact software as
> it implied to do some choices on types (bytes vs str for example with c
> binding), without really knowing the impact....
> 
> We may push the package but other packages using might be broken....
> On other side, package will be removed.
> 
> So either we push an update, knowing that it may not be fully fonctional,
> or let it go.....

I decided to upload and add a debian/NEWS.  I'll ask a future GSoC
student to add an extensive autopkgtest (if you will not beat the
student since you seem to know more about the package).

Kind regards

      Andreas.

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