[Pkg-owncloud-maintainers] Bug#945674: nextcloud-desktop: Python2 removal in sid/bullseye

[Mike Gabriel]

Hi,

On Wed, 27 Nov 2019 23:58:50 +0000 Sandro Tosi 
<morph at paradis.debian.org> wrote:
 > Source: nextcloud-desktop
 > Version: 2.6.1-1
 > Severity: normal
 > Tags: sid bullseye
 > User: debian-python at lists.debian.org
 > Usertags: py2removal
 >
 > Python2 becomes end-of-live upstream, and Debian aims to remove
 > Python2 from the distribution, as discussed in
 > https://lists.debian.org/debian-python/2019/07/msg00080.html
 >
 > Your package either build-depends, depends on Python2, or uses Python2
 > in the autopkg tests (the specific reason can be found searching this
 > source package in
 > https://people.debian.org/~morph/mass-bug-py2removal_take3.txt ).
 > Please stop using Python2, and fix this issue by one of the following
 > actions.
 >
 > - Convert your Package to Python3. This is the preferred option. In
 > case you are providing a Python module foo, please consider dropping
 > the python-foo package, and only build a python3-foo package. Please
 > don't drop Python2 modules, which still have reverse dependencies,
 > just document them.
 >
 > This is the preferred option.
 >
 > - If the package is dead upstream, cannot be converted or maintained
 > in Debian, it should be removed from the distribution. If the
 > package still has reverse dependencies, raise the severity to
 > "serious" and document the reverse dependencies with the BTS affects
 > command. If the package has no reverse dependencies, confirm that
 > the package can be removed, reassign this issue to ftp.debian.org,
 > make sure that the bug priority is set to normal and retitle the
 > issue to "RM: PKG -- removal triggered by the Python2 removal".
 >
 > - If the package has still many users (popcon >= 300), or is needed to
 > build another package which cannot be removed, document that by
 > adding the "py2keep" user tag (not replacing the py2remove tag),
 > using the debian-python at lists.debian.org user. Also any
 > dependencies on an unversioned python package (python, python-dev)
 > must not be used, same with the python shebang. These have to be
 > replaced by python2/python2.7 dependencies and shebang.
 >
 > This is the least preferred option.
 >
 > If there are questions, please refer to the wiki page for the removal:
 > https://wiki.debian.org/Python/2Removal, or ask for help on IRC
 > #debian-python, or the debian-python at lists.debian.org mailing list.
 >

I have just uploaded python-caja with Python3 support to Debian 
experimental. Please note that the new python(3)-caja will not have 
Python2 support anymore.

Thus, there will soon be a python-caja transition coming up. Please get 
your package ready for supporting python3-caja. Thanks.

Mike