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

[Julian Taylor]

On 18.10.18 14:28, Antoine Beaupré wrote:
> 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
> 
> A.
> 

that bug looks more like a packaging error or fixable installation error
than a bug in the py2 version.
removing the py2 package making other packages rc buggy looks like
overkill without prior consultation of reverse dependencies.