[Pkg-mailman-hackers] Bug#1001591: [Pkg-matrix-maintainers] Bug#1002380: drops attributes used by reverse dependencies

[Sandro Tosi]

> I am eager to revert mistune (and therefore django-hyperkitty) back to
> previous versions, and to open bugs against reverse deps, with new
> uploads in experimental for both mistune and django-hyperkitty.

this would be great indeed, thanks!

> I consider a delay between bug opening and making them RC on the
> reverse-deps of a month, which, added to the removal delay, means around
> mid-march I'll probably reupload mistune 2.0.0 and django-hyperkitty in
> unstable.

from what i have seen, many of the downstream projects developers were
rather surprised by the sudden release of a mistune 2.0 version, and
they were uncertain how to move forward in a proper way, given the
vast number of differences and incompatible changes.

There also seems to be a complete lack of guidance from mistune
upstream on how to port projects from 0.8.x to 2.x: do you think any
effort will be spent by mistune upstream to provide any such
documentation? without it, i'm afraid 1 month is not enough
(anecdotally, the 2.x upload in unstable was a little more than a
month ago, and i dont think any upstream project mas ported to it, so
that should provide some guidance on how long to wait to make it RC)

> Last but not least, do you have appropriate tooling to file bugs against
> mistune reverse deps a bit more efficiently than "mail by mail"?

`mass-bug` from devscripts

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