Package: wireshark-dev Version: 2.6.9-1 Severity: normal Tags: help upstream confirmed Forwarded: https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15865
Dear Users of the idl2wrs modules, Please help in migrating the Pyhton 2 modules to Python 3 because other parts of Wireshark migrated to Python 3 and omniidl also migrated. If the modules are not migrated to Python 2 they will be dropped due to becoming useless. Myself, the maintainer of the wireshark package don't use those modules nor have adequate test data to verify a conversion, hence the 'help' tag. If you find the modules useful and can convert them, please step up and file patches under this bug or at the Salsa repository: https://salsa.debian.org/debian/wireshark Upstream's bug text: Since v2.9.0rc0-2460-ge9f7bb5127 we have moved as much as possible to Python 3, including the Python dependencies for wireshark-dev. However we have this in debian/wireshark-dev.install: tools/make-plugin-reg.py usr/share/pyshared tools/wireshark_be.py usr/share/pyshared tools/wireshark_gen.py usr/share/pyshared tools/asn2wrs.py usr/share/pyshared and this statement: "Architecture-independent public Python 2 modules should be installed to /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages. The historical location for this was /usr/share/pyshared. Since Python 2.7 is the last Python 2 version and the only supported version in Wheezy and later releases, a version-specific location is sufficient." https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/python-policy/ch-python.html#s-paths Both wireshark_be.py and wireshark_gen.py appears to be still Python 2 only (print "xxx") and are loaded as modules by "omniidl" (see doc/README.idl2wrs). According to [1], omniORB 4.2.0 gained Python 3 support. Debian omniidl 4.1.6-2.1 (Stretch) still requires Py2.7 while omniidl 4.2.2-0.9 (Buster) uses Py3. Unless someone steps up, updates and validates that the idl2wrs-related work properly with Python 3 (and Python 2?) and integrates well with Debian Stretch / Buster, I would suggest dropping these files from Debian packaging. That would also permit removing debian/patches/09_idl2wrs.patch [1]: https://sourceforge.net/projects/omniorb/files/omniORB/omniORB-4.2.3/ Cheers, Balint
