[Piuparts-devel] Bug#874730: piuparts-reports needs to be ported to python3 as python-rpy2 is gone (or another graphing solution is needed)

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 9 September 2017 at 10:50, Holger Levsen wrote:
| package: piuparts-master
| version: 0.81
| severity: important
| x-debbugs-cc: edd at debian.org
| 
| On Sat, Sep 09, 2017 at 09:54:33AM +0200, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
| >  rpy2 (2.9.0-1) unstable; urgency=medium
| >  .
| >    * New upstream release
| >  .
| >    * debian/control: Set Standards-Version: to current version
| >  .
| >    * debian/control: Remove python2 remnants as only Python3 supported
| > upstream
| 
| we're only using python-rpy2 for piuparts-reports so it seems the easiest way
| out is to port the code to python3, though using something else for graphing
| would be another option.
| 
| Luckily we have the whole buster development cycle for this…

sagemath was also bitten by the disappearance on rpy2 from python2 (an
upstream choice,communicated long in advance).

The plan to bring in a new python2-only package based on the 2.8.* releases
of rpy2.  Ximin Luo said he already put it in the NEW queue,

Dirk

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