[Python-modules-team] Bug#911271: [Pkg-privacy-maintainers] Bug#911271: foolscap: (Build) Depends on non existing python-txtorcon

[Antoine Beaupré]

On 2018-10-18 13:26:28, Julian Taylor wrote:
> On 18.10.18 01:07, Antoine Beaupré wrote:
>> On 2018-10-18 00:16:15, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
>>> Package: foolscap
>>> Version: 0.13.1-1
>>> Severity: serious
>>>
>>> txtorcon does not build the Python2 variant (python-txtorcon) since its
>>> last upload, only the python3 one (python3-txtorcon) remains.
>>>
>>> As of now the package can't be built due to missing packages.
>> 
>> Seems to me foolscap should be ported to python rather than to force
>> txtorcon to support a (soon to be) obsolete version of python. :)
>> 
>
> foolscap is based on twisted which seems to have gotten python3 support
> recently. First one has to check if foolscap can work with python3 twisted.
>
> Please do not remove python2 packages from the bottom up, start from the
> dependency leaves and work down instead of just breaking everything above.
> txtorcon still supports python2 according to their github page.

If you look at the txtorcon removal, you'll see it fixed RC bugs about
the py2 version, so it was not just a gratitious change...

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=905253

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