[Python-apps-team] Bug#787902: Bug#787902: pelican: Please provide a python3 module

[Vincent Cheng]

On Sat, Jun 6, 2015 at 12:03 AM, Johannes Schauer <josch at debian.org> wrote:
> Source: pelican
> Version: 3.5.0-1
> Severity: wishlist
> Tags: patch
>
> Control: block -1 by 787897
>
> Hi,
>
> I noticed that pelican still relies on Python 2 even though upstream
> supports Python 3.
>
> The attached patch rectifies the situation.
>
> The patch can only be applied once feedgenerator offers a Python 3
> module (bug #787897).
>
> While changing the dh --buildsystem to pybuild, I tried getting the test
> suite to work but ran into several problems. Thus I deactivated running
> the test suite for now.

Thanks for the patch! However, as pelican is intended to be used more
as an application (it's a static site generator), rather than a set of
standalone python modules, I don't think it particularly makes sense
to offer both a python2 and python3 version of pelican. I'm inclined
to just build src:pelican using whatever is the default version of
python in Debian, and eventually rename the binary python-pelican
package to just pelican.

Regards,
Vincent