Bug#936115: alacarte: Python2 removal in sid/bullseye

[Andreas Henriksson]

Control: severity -1 serious
Control: affects -1 + gnome-panel

Hello,

On Fri, Aug 30, 2019 at 07:10:01AM +0000, Matthias Klose wrote:
> Package: src:alacarte
[...]
> Usertags: py2removal
[...]
> - Convert your Package to Python3. This is the preferred option.
[...]

I think converting alacarte to python3 is unlikely to ever happen.

The upstream project has seen no real development activity in the last
~5 years.

> - 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.  

I think this option is the best fit and I'm starting things out with
bumping the severity.

The wikipedia page for alacarte says "menulibre" (also available in
debian) can serve as a replacement.

There are no reverse dependencies of alacarte (but the gnome-panel
recommends on alacarte should probably be replaced by menulibre or
dropped so I'm marking it as affected).

> 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".

I'm holding off on this for now giving others a chance to step in (NOW!)
if they disagree with anything I've said.... The complete removal from
archive should happen eventually though.

> 
> - If the package has still many users (popcon >= 300),
[...]

The popcon of alacarte is quite high still (but dropping rapidly).
Installed is around 20.000 and vote is around 950 so there still seem to
be people using it. Possibly adding a note to the menulibre long
description about it can serve as a replacement for alacarte could help
users find out about menulibre easier (by menulibre showing up in 'apt
search alacarte').

Regards,
Andreas Henriksson