Bug#938803: v-sim: Python2 removal in sid/bullseye

[Simon McVittie]

Control: block 945022 by -1

On Fri, 30 Aug 2019 at 07:58:17 +0000, Matthias Klose wrote:
> - If the package has still many users (popcon >= 300), or is needed to
>   build another package which cannot be removed, document that by
>   adding the "py2keep" user tag (not replacing the py2remove tag),
>   using the debian-python at lists.debian.org user.  Also any
>   dependencies on an unversioned python package (python, python-dev)
>   must not be used, same with the python shebang.  These have to be
>   replaced by python2/python2.7 dependencies and shebang.
> 
>   This is the least preferred option.

If you do this, please also add an explicit build-dependency on python-gi.
This will prevent FTBFS when python-gi-dev drops its dependency on
python-gi (#945022), which needs to be done to help to track which of the
reverse-dependencies of python-gi-dev are Python 2 packages.

Thanks,
    smcv