Bug#936806: koji: Python2 removal in sid/bullseye

Marek Marczykowski-Górecki marmarek at invisiblethingslab.com
Fri Jan 31 18:01:01 GMT 2020


On Thu, Jan 30, 2020 at 05:40:55PM -0800, Mike Miller wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 30, 2020 at 01:36:33 -0500, Sandro Tosi wrote:
> > yep i came across all of them starting from python-lzma -- do you know
> > what's the status of the "RedHat infrastructure" in debian? many (if
> > not all) of those tools are relatively old, not maintained (or just in
> > life support mode) and most of all, python2 with no port to python3
> > available
> 
> Yeah. I was responsible for some of these, but put them up for adoption
> about a year ago. You've about captured the status, all rpm-related
> packages in Debian are old, unmaintained, Python 2 only. Updating to
> Python 3 ports of mock and koji need dnf, yum is abandonware.
> 
> I've seen a couple threads about packaging dnf (likely not archived),
> but so far no one has committed enough to file an ITP.
> 
> There _is_ an ITP for createrepo-c (#912338), a C-only reimplementation,
> also a koji dependency, but looks like it may have stalled.

Adding a bunch of people from Fedora, involved in reproducible builds
before. And also adding Simon, who can help with some of this.

A little context: Currently Fedora build tools packages in Debian are
mostly unmaintained. This makes it difficult to have cross-distribution
cooperation, for example Debian developers with a lot of experience in
reproducible builds helping with reproducibility of Fedora packages.
If I understand correctly, it is also one of the things needed to revive
Fedora reproducibility testing on https://tests.reproducible-builds.org.

This is about dnf, mock, koji and createrepo-c - and their dependencies
(if any missing in Debian).

Simon can do some packaging, but will need help with finding
maintainers for them, and possibly also packaging some of the
dependencies - if there are many of them missing.

-- 
Best Regards,
Marek Marczykowski-Górecki
Invisible Things Lab
A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
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