[Python-modules-team] Bug#936310: cloudpickle: Python2 removal in sid/bullseye

[Diane Trout]

Please dont remove the python2 package yet. I forgot to check rdeps before uploading and discovered two packages, spyder and skimage depend on the python2 version of cloudpickle.

Diane.

On August 30, 2019 12:13:30 AM PDT, Matthias Klose <doko at debian.org> wrote:
>Package: src:cloudpickle
>Version: 0.8.0-1
>Severity: normal
>Tags: sid bullseye
>User: debian-python at lists.debian.org
>Usertags: py2removal
>
>Python2 becomes end-of-live upstream, and Debian aims to remove
>Python2 from the distribution, as discussed in
>https://lists.debian.org/debian-python/2019/07/msg00080.html
>
>Your package either build-depends, depends on Python2, or uses Python2
>in the autopkg tests.  Please stop using Python2, and fix this issue
>by one of the following actions.
>
>- Convert your Package to Python3. This is the preferred option.  In
>  case you are providing a Python module foo, please consider dropping
>  the python-foo package, and only build a python3-foo package.  Please
>  don't drop Python2 modules, which still have reverse dependencies,
>  just document them.
>  
>  This is the preferred option.
>
>- If the package is dead upstream, cannot be converted or maintained
>  in Debian, it should be removed from the distribution.  If the
>  package still has reverse dependencies, raise the severity to
>  "serious" and document the reverse dependencies with the BTS affects
>  command.  If the package has no reverse dependencies, confirm that
>  the package can be removed, reassign this issue to ftp.debian.org,
>  make sure that the bug priority is set to normal and retitle the
>  issue to "RM: PKG -- removal triggered by the Python2 removal".
>
>- If the package has still many users (popcon >= 300), or is needed to
>  build another package which cannot be removed, document that by
>  adding the "py2keep" user tag (not replacing the py2remove tag),
>  using the debian-python at lists.debian.org user.  Also any
>  dependencies on an unversioned python package (python, python-dev)
>  must not be used, same with the python shebang.  These have to be
>  replaced by python2/python2.7 dependencies and shebang.
>
>  This is the least preferred option.
>
>If the conversion or removal needs action on another package first,
>please document the blocking by using the BTS affects command, like
>
>  affects <bug number of blocking py2removal bug> + src:cloudpickle
>
>If there is no py2removal bug for that reverse-dependency, please file
>a bug on this package (similar to this bug report).
>
>If there are questions, please refer to the wiki page for the removal:
>https://wiki.debian.org/Python/2Removal, or ask for help on IRC
>#debian-python, or the debian-python at lists.debian.org mailing list.
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