Bug#936625: gnome-doc-utils: Python2 removal in sid/bullseye

[Christoph Reiter]

On Fri, 15 May 2020 11:38:34 +0200 Andreas Henriksson <andreas at fatal.se> wrote:
> Control: tags -1 + wontfix
>
> Hello all,
>
> On Thu, Apr 30, 2020 at 08:41:47AM +0200, Christoph Reiter wrote:
> > Fedora has ported it to Python 3:
> > https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/gnome-doc-utils/blob/master/f/gnome-doc-utils-0.20.10-python3.patch
>
> Thanks for providing this information..... You don't happen to know the
> underlying reason for why they did this?

No idea. If I'd have to guess I'd say to smooth the transition of
removing both gnome-doc-utils and py2.

This is what I found :D https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1737996#c7

> Unrelated to python(3), gnome-doc-utils is deprecated after all.
>
> We currently have no reverse dependencies in testing on the Debian side,
> thus I think we're in a good position to remove it rather than fix any
> outstanding bugs in it (and autoremoval should kick in soon as the
> targeted date was apparently yesterday). I'm thus tagging this wontfix
> for the potential benefit of anyone trying to get the overview of
> remaining python3 porting work.

Sounds good!

It turned out that the fedora port is incomplete as well and I had to
patch more stuff for my use case:

https://github.com/msys2/MSYS2-packages/blob/master/gnome-doc-utils/more-python3-fixes.patch