[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#708888: Bug#708888: Bug#708888: Deprecation of dh_pycentral, please use dh_python2

Steve Langasek vorlon at debian.org
Mon May 20 05:26:06 UTC 2013


Control: reassign -1 ftp.debian.org
Control: retitle -1 RM: swat2 -- ROM; unmaintained, uses deprecated python-central

On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 04:09:46AM +0200, Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
> On Sun, May 19, 2013 at 10:44:17AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
> > On Sun, May 19, 2013 at 02:10:21PM +0200, Luca Falavigna wrote:
> > > Package: src:swat2
> > > Version: 0.1~bzr478-1
> > > Severity: important
> > > Tags: sid jessie
> > > User: debian-python at lists.debian.org
> > > Usertags: pycentral-deprecation

> > > The package build-depends on python-central, which should be
> > > removed in time for the jessie release.  dh_python2 should be used instead.
> > > dh_python2 installs into the same locations as pycentral, but
> > > avoids the creation and removal of symlinks at package installation
> > > and removal time, making the upgrade process more robust and faster.

> > Thanks for this bug report.

> > Jelmer, it looks like swat2 hasn't been touched in Debian since the initial
> > upload to experimental two years ago; and of course there's just been the
> > announcement upstream that swat (the original) would be dropped from the
> > tree, without replacement.  I think the right course of action here is to
> > request removal of the swat2 package from experimental.  Are you happy for
> > me to reassign this bug to ftp.debian.org?
> That would be okay with me.

Ok, reassigning with this mail.

Thanks,
-- 
Steve Langasek                   Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS
Debian Developer                   to set it on, and I can move the world.
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slangasek at ubuntu.com                                     vorlon at debian.org
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