Bug#943135: Bug#937769: getting python-linecache2/python-traceback2 fixes into testing (FAO traceback2, funcsigs nipype and numba maintainers).

[Moritz Mühlenhoff]

On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 09:57:30AM +0200, Thomas Goirand wrote:
> On 4/20/20 4:36 AM, peter green wrote:
> 
> Funcsigs is a backport of the PEP 362 function signature features from
> Python 3.3's inspect module. Python 2 has never been removed from this
> package. Though instead, we shall remove this source package entirely
> from Debian.
> 
> Traceback2 *already* has Python 2 support removed in Sid. I uploaded
> this on the 21st of march, pressured by its potential autoremoval.
> 
> > If the maintainers of nipype are willing to upload a python 3 version
> > soon, then option 1 is IMO the preffered way forward, but a new upstream
> > version is not something I would be prepared to NMU.
> 
> There's no other choice but to fix nipype at this point, or wait until
> it gets autoremoved from Testing. IMO, it'd be fine to NMU a new
> upstream release if you contact the current maintainer and/or using the
> delayed queue.

JFTR, nipype is removed from testing since August last year, so this is totally
not a blocker :-)

Cheers,
        Moritz