[Debichem-devel] Bug#943051: closed by Nicholas Breen <nbreen at debian.org> (Re: Bug#943051: gromacs: Python2 removal in sid/bullseye)

[Sandro Tosi]

Hello Nicholas,
any specific reason to wait this long? it would be very helpful if
there's a chance for you to speed up the upload to unstable, so that
we can reduce the number of packages needing python2 in unstable soon,
and better assess the situation we are in, and if we can actually
remove py2 during bullseye development cycle. thanks for your
understanding!

On Tue, Oct 22, 2019 at 10:59 PM Debian Bug Tracking System
<owner at bugs.debian.org> wrote:
>
> This is an automatic notification regarding your Bug report
> which was filed against the src:gromacs package:
>
> #943051: gromacs: Python2 removal in sid/bullseye
>
> It has been closed by Nicholas Breen <nbreen at debian.org>.
>
> Their explanation is attached below along with your original report.
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> From: Nicholas Breen <nbreen at debian.org>
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> Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2019 19:48:26 -0700
> Subject: Re: [Debichem-devel] Bug#943051: gromacs: Python2 removal in sid/bullseye
> Version: 2020~beta1-1
>
> On Wed, Oct 23, 2019 at 02:33:26AM +0000, morph at debian.org wrote:
> > Source: gromacs
> > Version: 2019.4-1
> > Severity: normal
> > Tags: sid bullseye
> > User: debian-python at lists.debian.org
> > Usertags: py2removal
> >
> > Python2 becomes end-of-live upstream, and Debian aims to remove
> > Python2 from the distribution, as discussed in
> > https://lists.debian.org/debian-python/2019/07/msg00080.html
>
> Fixed in experimental, will probably move to unstable in January.
>
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: morph at debian.org
> To: maintonly at bugs.debian.org
> Cc:
> Bcc:
> Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2019 02:33:26 +0000
> Subject: gromacs: Python2 removal in sid/bullseye
> Source: gromacs
> Version: 2019.4-1
> Severity: normal
> Tags: sid bullseye
> User: debian-python at lists.debian.org
> Usertags: py2removal
>
> Python2 becomes end-of-live upstream, and Debian aims to remove
> Python2 from the distribution, as discussed in
> https://lists.debian.org/debian-python/2019/07/msg00080.html
>
> Your package either build-depends, depends on Python2, or uses Python2
> in the autopkg tests (the specific reason can be found searching this
> source package in
> https://people.debian.org/~morph/mass-bug-py2removal_take2.txt ).
> Please stop using Python2, and fix this issue by one of the following
> actions.
>
> - Convert your Package to Python3. This is the preferred option.  In
>   case you are providing a Python module foo, please consider dropping
>   the python-foo package, and only build a python3-foo package.  Please
>   don't drop Python2 modules, which still have reverse dependencies,
>   just document them.
>
>   This is the preferred option.
>
> - If the package is dead upstream, cannot be converted or maintained
>   in Debian, it should be removed from the distribution.  If the
>   package still has reverse dependencies, raise the severity to
>   "serious" and document the reverse dependencies with the BTS affects
>   command.  If the package has no reverse dependencies, confirm that
>   the package can be removed, reassign this issue to ftp.debian.org,
>   make sure that the bug priority is set to normal and retitle the
>   issue to "RM: PKG -- removal triggered by the Python2 removal".
>
> - 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 there are questions, please refer to the wiki page for the removal:
> https://wiki.debian.org/Python/2Removal, or ask for help on IRC
> #debian-python, or the debian-python at lists.debian.org mailing list.



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