ros python to python3 conversion

[Scott Kitterman]

On August 4, 2019 7:26:31 PM UTC, Jochen Sprickerhof <jspricke at debian.org> wrote:
>Hi Scott,
>
>* Scott Kitterman <debian at kitterman.com> [2019-08-04 01:52]:
>>I took a brief look at python3 support in ros, and as far as I can
>tell, it
>>appears to be python3 ready, it just needs someone to change it over.
>
>That's actually still to be tested. I added python3- packages during
>the 
>last release cycle and did some initial testing, but upstream still 
>declares it as an open task:
>
>https://discourse.ros.org/t/planning-future-ros-1-distribution-s/6538
>https://github.com/ros/rosdistro/issues/21513
>https://github.com/ros-infrastructure/rep/pull/149
>
>> Since
>>it seems like there are multiple packages involved, I would appreciate
>it if
>>someone in debian-science would have a look and see about changing it
>over.  I
>>started with python-rviz and got confused from there.
>
>Currently I go through all ROS packages to update them to the newest 
>versions (that piled up during the buster freeze) and I found some with
>
>Python 3 updates already. My plan is to setup a test environment with 
>Python 3 only builds of all packages next and to test them, but I can't
>
>promise any dates, currently. Would be great if you (or anyone else) 
>could help with that. I would be happy to help with it.
>
>What did you confuse in python-rviz? Would be happy to make the 
>ROS Debian world more transparent.

When I started looking at python-rviz reverse-depends and it wasn't clear what would need to be updated.

Scott K