On 2019-10-01 20:31:21, Sandro Tosi wrote:
> Package: python-mox
> Version: 0.5.3-5
> Severity: normal
> Tags: patch  pending
> 
> 
> Dear maintainer,
> 
> I've prepared an NMU for python-mox (versioned as 0.7.8-1.1) and
> uploaded it to DELAYED/10. Please feel free to tell me if I
> should delay it longer.

Hi!

Wow, you did all the work, no need to delay. I'll just leave it to enter
the archive as-is.

> pymox is still needed by a handful of packages, and it looks like someone
> picked up upstream duties at https://github.com/ivancrneto/pymox so i prepared
> an NMU to upgrade the packge to 0.7.8, which includes python3 support.

I was sure this was going to be Removal soon, but if it has a new
upstream, by all means.

> all of this so that i will be able to upgrade nsscache from python2 to 
> python3:
> it requires pymox for tests.

Honestly last I looked at mox, the mock library shipped with python was
as good, so maybe a better thing would be to port the unittests. But,
that's a separate thing.

> feel free to re-version it at -1 and upload it directly, and i'll cancel the
> NMU. 

This is now entering the archive in 2 days, I'll leave as such :)

> It would also be great if you'd consider migrating your python packages to
> the DPMT team :)

I'd have to learn what needs to be done first, but given this is already
under debian with righs for all DDs, what would DPMT bring on top?

thanks!
iustin

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