[Piuparts-devel] First step to Python 3

[Holger Levsen]

On Mon, Jan 14, 2019 at 01:29:36PM -0200, Herbert Fortes wrote:
> > > python-lzma seems to be for tests too (piupartslib/__init__.py).
> > > piuparts-common package has it for 'Depends'.
> > what's your question/comment here?
> Piuparts does not need python-lzma

but the test do need it?

> I ran tests (nosetestes3) without python-lzma. 

ah. so we can drop the python-lzma depends?

>I
> think I have Python2  installed because of xmlto.
> 
> xmlto started to be necessary in version 0.36.
> 
> - add build-dependencies on debhelper, asciidoc and xmlto.
> - remove build-dependencies on docbook2x and docbook-xml.
> 
> If Piuparts stop to use xmlto package it will not
> need Python2.

I guess xmlto will need to be ported to python3 then?

> After the first commit in the branch I will create,
> what is the next step?
> 
>  - try to add tests?
>  - run piuparts against some packages as manual tests?

that

>  - remove xmlto from Build-Depends?
>    (doc files can wait)

well, we need those doc files...

Thanks for all your work on this! Really very much appreciated!


-- 
cheers,
	Holger

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