On Sat, Jun 27, 2020 at 22:13:10 -0400, Sandro Tosi wrote: > Hey Julien, > > On Thu, Apr 9, 2020 at 5:47 AM Julien Cristau <jcris...@debian.org> wrote: > > > > On Thu, Apr 9, 2020 at 01:17:06 -0400, Sandro Tosi wrote: > > > > > Hello Julien, > > > > > > On Tue, Feb 18, 2020 at 12:33 PM Julien Cristau <jcris...@debian.org> > > > wrote: > > > > Before switching in sid I'd want to: > > > > - be able to use the python3 version myself > > > > - give extensions some time to figure out their own switch > > > > - ideally not regress significant functionality; e.g. python-subversion > > > > is still not available for python3 > > > > > > > > I don't know what that means in terms of timeframe, it may or may not > > > > happen in time for bullseye, but I'm also not in a rush and I'd rather > > > > not break stuff by switching too early. > > > > > > I see that python3-enabled mercurial has been in experimental for a 3 > > > weeks now, how's it going? it would greatly help progress with the > > > overall py2removal effort if we could start planning to upload that > > > mercurial release to sid. > > > > > > Can you share with us your plans here? > > > > > Still need to coordinate with packaged extensions. > > what happened to the python3 port that was uploaded in experimental as > part of 5.4-1+exp1 ? it seems it got lost when 5.4-2 was uploaded to > unstable? (btw debian/experimental in git doesnt seem to be up-to-date > with what reached the archived) > Yeah basically fixing the RC bug in sid took priority and then I ran out of steam before merging back to experimental. I also want to figure out how to deal with #961245 there going forward.
> Do you need any help in coordinating with the packaged extensions, > testing changes, preparing patches? a lot of time has passed since we > started asking about mercurial and python3 and it is becoming the only > reverse-dependency of several packages that could be removed if > mercurial switched to py3k. > Getting an uptodate list of extensions and their status wrt porting both upstream and in Debian would be useful. I've spent some time looking at hgsubversion a few weeks ago but there's a ton of work and I don't actually use it so I've kind of given up on that; I forget what the status is on others. Cheers, Julien