Bug#936764: jhbuild: Python2 removal in sid/bullseye

Jeremy Bicha jbicha at debian.org
Sat Sep 14 19:08:22 BST 2019


On Fri, Aug 30, 2019 at 6:51 AM Andreas Henriksson <andreas at fatal.se> wrote:
> I'm not aware why jhbuild is packaged at all. It's a tool to do gnome
> development on top of gnome git head. You generally need to run jhbuild
> git head for things to work properly while doing so. The package has not
> been updated with a new upstream snapshot in years and there are
> virtually no users according to popcon. The package also has no reverse
> dependencies.

I like the Debian package for jhbuild. Unfortunately, keeping it
updated was a lower priority to me than the other parts of GNOME.

Let me see if I can save the package.

Thanks,
Jeremy



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