[Python-modules-team] Bug#943173: Not in testing yet?

[Florian Bruhin]

Hey Dmitry,

On Thu, Feb 06, 2020 at 01:04:35PM +0300, Dmitry Shachnev wrote:
> Hi Florian!
> 
> On Thu, Feb 06, 2020 at 10:36:22AM +0100, Florian Bruhin wrote:
> > Hey,
> >
> > It looks like 5.14.0-2 with the fix isn't in testing yet? See
> > https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/pyqt5webengine
> > https://qa.debian.org/excuses.php?package=pyqt5webengine
> >
> > I don't really understand why - can someone elaborate on what's going on?
> 
> That is because the Python 3 version of calibre failed to build on two
> architectures (arm64, mipsel), so calibre in testing still uses Python 2,
> so some packages which dropped Python 2 support (like pyqt5webengine)
> cannot migrate to testing.

Thanks a lot for the explanation! Out of curiosity, is there a way I could've
found out myself? https://qa.debian.org/excuses.php?package=pyqt5webengine
doesn't seem to say much about this situation.

> I think on February 16th calibre will be auto-removed from testing, and
> after that all those packages will be able to migrate.

FWIW it looks like there has been some activity for calibre:
https://tracker.debian.org/news/1099652/accepted-calibre-4994dfsgreally4100py3-1-source-into-unstable/
https://tracker.debian.org/news/1099754/accepted-calibre-4994dfsgreally4100py3-2-source-into-unstable/

> In the worst case, they will be removed for a short time but then will
> migrate anyway (but now that we have some activity on this bug, I don't think
> that will be the case for pyqt5webengine).

I was a bit worried about the exact timeline when this happens, since 27th is
the feature freeze for Ubuntu 20.04, and I'd really like qutebrowser v1.10.0 be
in there (given that it fixes various issues and will be supported by Ubuntu
for five years).

But indeed, it looks like the autoremoval date shown now is March 7th:
https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/qutebrowser

Florian

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