[Python-apps-team] Bug#937009: Bug#937009: mercurial: Python2 removal in sid/bullseye

[Julien Cristau]

On Thu, Apr  9, 2020 at 01:17:06 -0400, Sandro Tosi wrote:

> Hello Julien,
> 
> On Tue, Feb 18, 2020 at 12:33 PM Julien Cristau <jcristau at debian.org> wrote:
> > Before switching in sid I'd want to:
> > - be able to use the python3 version myself
> > - give extensions some time to figure out their own switch
> > - ideally not regress significant functionality; e.g. python-subversion
> >   is still not available for python3
> >
> > I don't know what that means in terms of timeframe, it may or may not
> > happen in time for bullseye, but I'm also not in a rush and I'd rather
> > not break stuff by switching too early.
> 
> I see that python3-enabled mercurial has been in experimental for a 3
> weeks now, how's it going? it would greatly help progress with the
> overall py2removal effort if we could start planning to upload that
> mercurial release to sid.
> 
> Can you share with us your plans here?
> 
Still need to coordinate with packaged extensions.

Cheers,
Julien