[Pkg-mailman-hackers] Bug#940865: mailman3: Depends on incorrect version of python3

[Pierre-Elliott Bécue]

Control: tags -1 +wontfix
Control: severity -1 normal

Le samedi 21 septembre 2019 à 05:44:30+0200, noone at openend.se a écrit :
> Source: mailman3
> Version: 3.2.2-1
> Severity: important
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> mailman3 has a depends python3:all
> This version of mailman uses importlib.resources, which is only
> available in python 3.7, or later.
> 
> The mailman command fails to start, rendering the entire package
> useless, if you have an older version of python3 installed.
> 
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: 9.11
>   APT prefers oldstable
>   APT policy: (990, 'oldstable'), (500, 'oldstable-updates'), (500, 'testing')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
> 
> Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-9-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=sv_SE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=sv_SE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to sv_SE.UTF-8), LANGUAGE=sv_SE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to sv_SE.UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
> Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Hi,

Thanks for your bug report.

mailman3 version 3.2.2-1 won't enter oldstable, and there is no ground
to make it depend on python3 >= 3.7.

The only version available in stretch is the stretch-backports one,
which is mailman 3.2.0-4, which doesn't rely on importlib.resources.

With best regards,

-- 
Pierre-Elliott Bécue
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