Bug#936554: freedoom: Python2 removal in sid/bullseye

[Fabian Greffrath]

Hi chungy,

Am Donnerstag, den 12.09.2019, 10:35 -0700 schrieb
mikeonthecomputer at gmail.com:
> venv, run an "alias python=python3" before building, or patch all the
> invocation lines for python3.

I already have a patch ready that does this, i.e. replace all the
shebang lines. I am all in favor of an explicit patch that can get
removed when the next version is released.

> A similar issue arises too with the use of AsciiDoc, whose reference
> implementation only has official releases that have a hard depend on
> python2.  I think I will add an ASCIIDOC variable to the Makefiles to
> control the implementation used, so it could be switched to
> asciidoctor

I have just learned that Debian has switched to a Python 3 fork of
asciidoc:

https://tracker.debian.org/news/1062733/accepted-asciidoc-8610git2019030751d7c14-1-source-into-unstable/

> Unfortunately there is no plan to make a 0.11.4 release, but we are
> trying to get a 0.12.0 as soon as we can :)

Looking forward to this!

 - Fabian

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