[Python-modules-team] Bug#740149: Bug#740149: billiard: please build for Python 3 as well

[Dimitri John Ledkov]

On 26 February 2014 11:09, Colin Watson <cjwatson at debian.org> wrote:
> Package: billiard
> Version: 3.3.0.15-1
> Severity: wishlist
>
> Hi,
>
> billiard looks useful for a project I'm working on where I'd like to be
> able to use forking_enable(False).  However, my project is primarily in
> Python 3, billiard is currently only built for Python 2, and I don't
> think forking_enable is available even in Python 3.4's multiprocessing
> and certainly not in 3.3.  PKG-INFO and setup.py claim support for
> Python 3; do you think you could build this into a python3-billiard
> binary package?
>
> (I'll probably need to come up with my own alternative for now as I'm
> under some time pressure, but there's a decent chance I'd switch to
> python3-billiard if it were available.)
>

In the svn repository python3-billiard is packaged and ready to be uploaded.

I'm guessing that it needs sponsorship?!

Michael, is billiard ready to be uploaded from svn trunk? Do you need
it sponsored?

Note that python3.4 has been added since, and the test-suite fails
under python3.4.

-- 
Regards,

Dimitri.