[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#938944: network-manager: Python2 removal in sid/bullseye

[Andreas Henriksson]

Control: block -1 by 916454
Control: tags -1 + fixed-upstream

On Fri, Aug 30, 2019 at 03:00:27PM +0100, Simon McVittie wrote:
> Package: src:network-manager
[...]
> Usertags: py2removal
> Control: block 936371 by -1
[...]

I had a quick look at this. Apparently upstream already supports using
either python2 or python3 for tests (and fedora uses python3).
cf. https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/commit/de326a4e8ad22a24e14c0f81821b0dd285860f22

I tried changing build-deps:
- python-gi -> python3-gi
- python-dbus -> python3-dbus

I also needed to explicitly set PYTHON=python3 environment variable when
calling dh_auto_configure, since python2 is transitively pulled in by
gtk-doc-tools and AM_PATH_PYTHON will pick up python(2) first.
I'm thus marking the gtk-doc-tools bug report about updating to a new
upstream release (and switching to python3) as a blocker as there's no
real point in fixing NM for py2removal if it still transitively deps on
python2.

With this I had problems with 2 failing tests that before my changes
where skipped! I have no idea why the tests where no longer skipped....
Maybe someone else can easily spot it.

Regards,
Andreas Henriksson