[Pkg-netmeasure-discuss] Bug#909866: ooniprobe: (Build-) Depends on vanished package python-txtorcon

[Axel Beckert]

Package: ooniprobe
Version: 2.3.0-1
Severity: serious

Hi,

txtorcon has stopped building the Python 2 variant python-txtorcon (on
which ooniprobe depends and build-depends) and only builds
python3-txtorcon.

According to https://github.com/ooni/probe-legacy/blob/master/setup.py,
Ooniprobe only supports Python 2.

And https://github.com/ooni/probe sounds as if the python variant is not
further developed. (No commits since February this year either.) So I
don't expect a port to Python 3 is a suitable solution to this issue.

Moving forward to the next-generation CLI (Go) or desktop variant
(JavaScript) is probably the way to go.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (600, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'buildd-unstable'), (110, 'experimental'), (1, 'experimental-debug'), (1, 'buildd-experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.17.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages ooniprobe depends on:
ii  adduser                3.118
ii  geoip-database         20180315-1
ii  python                 2.7.15-3
ii  python-certifi         2018.8.24-1
ii  python-geoip           1.3.2-1+b4
ii  python-ipaddr          2.2.0-1
ii  python-klein           17.2.0-2
ii  python-openssl         18.0.0-1
ii  python-pkg-resources   40.2.0-1
ii  python-pyasn1          0.4.2-3
ii  python-scapy           2.4.0-2
ii  python-twisted-core    18.7.0-2
ii  python-txsocksx        1.15.0.2-1
ii  python-txtorcon        0.19.3-4
ii  python-yaml            3.12-1+b2
ii  python-zope.interface  4.3.2-1+b2
ii  tor                    0.3.4.8-1

Versions of packages ooniprobe recommends:
ii  python-dumbnet  1.12-8
ii  python-pypcap   1.2.2-1

Versions of packages ooniprobe suggests:
pn  geoip-database-contrib  <none>
pn  obfs4proxy              <none>

-- debconf information:
* ooniprobe/run-cronjob: false