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

[Nicholas Breen]

On Tue, Oct 22, 2019 at 11:06:01PM -0400, Sandro Tosi wrote:
> 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!

Hi Sandro,

Only that the fixes are in the beta branch for the next upstream
release, and it's scheduled for a stable release in January.  Also,
right now the experimental build fails on four release architectures
(and 11 port architectures!), so it's not quite ready for an upload to
unstable, if it can't later migrate to testing.

I haven't looked into the upstream code changes yet, but there was only
one specific part of the documentation build that relied on python2 in
the earlier versions - I'll see if I can backport that more quickly.


- Nicholas