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Bug#945747: Fwd: Fwd: Bug#945747: xastir: Python2 removal in sid/bullseye



Sandro and others,

Per one of the primary developers, all vestiges of PYTHON are now removed from XASTIR.

See below in-line for definitive information.

At this point if someone would do a re-pull from Git and re-package for Debian it would in my estimation clear things for moving forward towards Sid/Bullseye.

Respectfully,
David A Aitcheson - KB3EFS


-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject: Re: Fwd: Bug#945747: xastir: Python2 removal in sid/bullseye
Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2019 18:57:49 -0700
From: Tom Russo <russo@bogodyn.org>
Reply-To: russo@bogodyn.org
Organisation: International Institute for Advanced Quantum Bogodynamical Studies
To: David A Aitcheson <david.aitcheson@gmail.com>
CC: Curt Mills - WE7U <curt.we7u@gmail.com>


Xastir_tigerpoly.py is now removed from Xastir's git repo. It will no longer
be part of any future release.

In the meantime, since Debian won't pull from git, a trivial patch for the debian package would just be to remove the script from scripts/Makefile.am so it isn't installed, and to remove the python dependency from the package. There is no python usage in Xastir other than that script, which hasn't been used in something like 10 years. I think the last release of TIGER/LINE data was in 2006, and the script probably hasn't been used since.

On Wed, Nov 27, 2019 at 06:43:25PM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <russo@bogodyn.org> flavor, containing:
There is exactly ONE python script in Xastir, a little-used script called
"Xastir_tigerpoly.py" that has almost no current applicability to anything.
It is designed to take a decades-obsolete map topological map format and c
converts it to shapefile. It is highly unlikely that anybody will even be
able to find the data it was meant to process.

I have no idea if it would work with python3, but it is irrelevant. Nothing
in Xastir actually depends on python other than this script. Unless someone
really wants this script, one could run Xastir without even having *any*
version of python installed.
They should simply remove the dependency on python. Absolutely nobody will
ever notice.

I ought to just remove the script altogether, and will for the next release.
It has long since beeen irrelevant.


On Wed, Nov 27, 2019 at 08:03:34PM -0500, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <david.aitcheson@gmail.com> flavor, containing:
> Guys,
> > A "?" that is off list(s) to avoid "boat rocking".
> > What part of Xastir uses py2?
> > I work from Source Code so maybe I am missing something.
> > I know you don't build binaries so this is a non-issue for me, and just
> a curiosity.
> > 73
> Dave
> KB3EFS
> > > -------- Forwarded Message --------
> Subject: Bug#945747: xastir: Python2 removal in sid/bullseye
> Resent-Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2019 00:09:10 +0000
> Resent-From: Sandro Tosi <morph@paradis.debian.org>
> Resent-To: Debian Hamradio Maintainers <debian-hams@lists.debian.org>
> Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2019 23:58:54 +0000
> From: Sandro Tosi <morph@paradis.debian.org>
> Reply-To: Sandro Tosi <morph@paradis.debian.org>,
> 945747-maintonly@bugs.debian.org
> To: maintonly@bugs.debian.org
> > > > Source: xastir
> Version: 2.1.4-1
> Severity: normal
> Tags: sid bullseye
> User: debian-python@lists.debian.org
> Usertags: py2removal
> > Python2 becomes end-of-live upstream, and Debian aims to remove
> Python2 from the distribution, as discussed in
> https://lists.debian.org/debian-python/2019/07/msg00080.html
> > Your package either build-depends, depends on Python2, or uses Python2
> in the autopkg tests (the specific reason can be found searching this
> source package in
> https://people.debian.org/~morph/mass-bug-py2removal_take3.txt ).
> Please stop using Python2, and fix this issue by one of the following
> actions.
> > - Convert your Package to Python3. This is the preferred option. In
> case you are providing a Python module foo, please consider dropping
> the python-foo package, and only build a python3-foo package. Please
> don't drop Python2 modules, which still have reverse dependencies,
> just document them.
> This is the preferred option.
> > - If the package is dead upstream, cannot be converted or maintained
> in Debian, it should be removed from the distribution. If the
> package still has reverse dependencies, raise the severity to
> "serious" and document the reverse dependencies with the BTS affects
> command. If the package has no reverse dependencies, confirm that
> the package can be removed, reassign this issue to ftp.debian.org,
> make sure that the bug priority is set to normal and retitle the
> issue to "RM: PKG -- removal triggered by the Python2 removal".
> > - If the package has still many users (popcon >= 300), or is needed to
> build another package which cannot be removed, document that by
> adding the "py2keep" user tag (not replacing the py2remove tag),
> using the debian-python@lists.debian.org user. Also any
> dependencies on an unversioned python package (python, python-dev)
> must not be used, same with the python shebang. These have to be
> replaced by python2/python2.7 dependencies and shebang.
> > This is the least preferred option.
> > If there are questions, please refer to the wiki page for the removal:
> https://wiki.debian.org/Python/2Removal, or ask for help on IRC
> #debian-python, or the debian-python@lists.debian.org mailing list.
> >
-- Tom Russo KM5VY
Tijeras, NM
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Tom Russo    KM5VY
Tijeras, NM  
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