Re: Removing py2 support from python-xattr
On Sat, Aug 24, 2019 at 08:03:55PM -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote: > On Saturday, August 24, 2019 6:28:10 PM EDT Thomas Goirand wrote: > > Please, let's generalize and see the whole picture. There will be A LOT > > more cases like this one, and I don't think that waiting forever will > > solve the situation. It is my opinion that we should set a kind of > > policy (ie: wait for how long?) and then act... > > If it were me, I'd go ahead and file a serious bug indicating a dependency of > the package is about to be removed. And then, once it is autorm from testing without the maintainer saying anything, open an RM bug for the rdep. -- regards, Mattia Rizzolo GPG Key: 66AE 2B4A FCCF 3F52 DA18 4D18 4B04 3FCD B944 4540 .''`. more about me: https://mapreri.org : :' : Launchpad user: https://launchpad.net/~mapreri `. `'` Debian QA page: https://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=mattia `- signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: Removing py2 support from python-xattr
On Saturday, August 24, 2019 6:28:10 PM EDT Thomas Goirand wrote: > Hi, > > I came across python-xattr, which I know well because it's used in > Swift. I went to investigate it's reverse dependencies, and discovered > that it's py2 version is only used by calendarserver, which itself, is > py2 only upstream, and is full of py2-ism that would need to be fixed > (and the work is really non-trivial and huge). > > Since we decided to work on leaf packages only, what to do in this case, > as it doesn't look like calendarserver will be fixed anytime soon? Shall > we wait? For how long? I've of course filed a bug against > calendarserver, but I'm quite sure this wont be enough to get things moving. > > Please, let's generalize and see the whole picture. There will be A LOT > more cases like this one, and I don't think that waiting forever will > solve the situation. It is my opinion that we should set a kind of > policy (ie: wait for how long?) and then act... If it were me, I'd go ahead and file a serious bug indicating a dependency of the package is about to be removed. Scott K
Removing py2 support from python-xattr
Hi, I came across python-xattr, which I know well because it's used in Swift. I went to investigate it's reverse dependencies, and discovered that it's py2 version is only used by calendarserver, which itself, is py2 only upstream, and is full of py2-ism that would need to be fixed (and the work is really non-trivial and huge). Since we decided to work on leaf packages only, what to do in this case, as it doesn't look like calendarserver will be fixed anytime soon? Shall we wait? For how long? I've of course filed a bug against calendarserver, but I'm quite sure this wont be enough to get things moving. Please, let's generalize and see the whole picture. There will be A LOT more cases like this one, and I don't think that waiting forever will solve the situation. It is my opinion that we should set a kind of policy (ie: wait for how long?) and then act... Cheers, Thomas Goirand (zigo)
