Hi folks, it is time to decide about some packages which are upstream Python2 and will probably not supported any more so we would become upstream for the Python3 migration. We probably need to confess that we do not have the capacity to do so. My first candidate for this decision is pbsuite. I stumbled upon this due to bug #920545 which is serious for python-intervaltree-bio since autopkgtest regressions are now RC.
Its only purpose was that it is a precondition for pbsuite. I had a look at the actively used installations of pbsuite in pobcon[1] At no time we had more than 10 actively used installations of users who are contributing via popcon. That was in 2017 (at that time upstream had provided the last SVN commits on Sourceforge) and we are now down to maximum 2 active usage cases. For me that boils down to "never massively used with tendency to not used at all any more". Our only Uploader Afif has droped himself from this position to declare that he does not want to continue maintenance. Is there any volunteer who intends to spent time into a Python3 migration and is aware that by doing so this might involve active maintenance? I personally would prefer to focus my time on more actively used code. Kind regards Andreas. [1] https://qa.debian.org/popcon-graph.php?packages=pbsuite+python-pbsuite-utils+pbjelly+pbhoney+python-pbbanana&show_vote=on&want_legend=on&want_ticks=on&from_date=&to_date=&hlght_date=&date_fmt=%25Y-%25m&beenhere=1 -- http://fam-tille.de