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

[Pierre-Elliott Bécue]

Sandro Tosi <morph at debian.org> wrote on 09/01/2022 at 03:38:18+0100:

>> 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.

Well, having participated to writing some documentation, I am not sure
that this number of differences is that vast. Mistune, on itself, was
not that big a project in terms of features, and getting a grip on the
new version should not take that much time.

> 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)

Okay, lets go with 3 months from Jan the 15th so April the 15th. If
things seem to go faster than expected I will maybe contract that
schedule. (let's say if two thirds of the deps are up-to-date upstream
on March the 1st I'll come back to the initial schedule)

Would that make sense for you?

>> 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

Ah right, I never used it, it's about time. :)

Thanks!
-- 
PEB
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