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

[Axel Beckert]

Hi Florian and Dmitry,

Dmitry Shachnev wrote:
> > 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 for that explanation! I was wondering, too, and suspected
something like that, but didn't bother digging deeper.

Previously there was a "more excuses" link besides the "excuses" link
which IIRC displayed such tricky correlations, but I can't find that
anymore.

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

Ack, I expect the same, i.e.: We don't have to worry. :-)

Florian Bruhin wrote:
> 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.

Probably not. :-(

> 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).

Ubuntu takes packages from Unstable (and Experimental, even without
asking why they are in Experimental!), not from Testing.

And qutebrowser 1.10.0-1 is in Ubuntu Focal for two days already, so
you don't have to worry anymore:

https://packages.ubuntu.com/focal/qutebrowser
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/qutebrowser

		Regards, Axel
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