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

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Control: severity -1 serious

Releasing a new major release of mistune has caused several packages to 
no longer be usable at all.

I consider this a serious issue, and have raised severity accordingly.

At least python-m2r have no support for mistune v2 in sight (and its 
newer fork - python-m2r2 - does not either). Concretely I propose to 
revert this by a (messy) 2.0.0+really0.8.4 release until reverse 
dependencies can use the newer major version of mistune.

It seems that a release of python3-django-hyperkitty requiring mistune 
v2 has already been uploaded to unstable as well.  That is very 
unfortunate, and will need to be rolled back as well.  Mailman 
maintainers cc'ed.

Please in future make sure to check reverse dependencies *before* 
releasing a major new upstream release to unstable, because reversal is 
messy (complicates package versioning).


Kind regards, and thanks for maintaining mistune,

 - Jonas

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