Re: Sunsetting Python 2 astronomy packages
Dear all,
I just dropped the Python 2 support for astroquery. It is one of the
packages that have issues with the new version of pytest.
Among other changes, I renamed the documentation package from
python-astroquery-doc to python3-astroquery-doc.
Shall I keep python-astroquery-doc as a transitional package?
I would also need someone to upload the new version of the package,
since this introduces a new binary package.
Thanks in advance.
Best regards
Vincent
Le 28/11/2018 à 10:10, Ole Streicher a écrit :
> Dear all,
>
> as it turned out recently [1,2], supporting Python 2 packages will get
> more difficult now. Specifically, the pytest version that is now in
> Debian (3.10) is incompatible to many of our Python 2 packages (or
> buggy), making their test suites fail. Pytest upstream will not release
> a bugfix version that will bring compatibility back, and Astropy
> upstream decided that the Python 2 legacy package (Astropy 2.x) will not
> be compatible to newer Pytest versions.
>
> Leaving Astropy 2.x in Debian without continious integration tests would
> have the high risk that something breaks undetected when a dependency is
> updated. This makes the package unsuitable for scientific work.
>
> To keep our quality standards high, I think it is the best to remove
> Astropy 2.x as the Python 2 legacy package from Debian. This will be
> accompanied with the removal of all Python 2 packages that depend on
> Astropy, namely:
>
> - python-aplpy,
> - python-astlib,
> - python-astroml,
> - python-astroplan,
> - python-astropy-healpix,
> - python-astroquery,
> - python-astroscrappy,
> - python-ccdproc,
> - python-ginga,
> - python-glue,
> - python-healpy,
> - python-imexam,
> - python-montage-wrapper,
> - python-pyavm,
> - python-pydl,
> - python-pymoc,
> - python-pyraf,
> - python-pyregion,
> - python-pysynphot,
> - python-cpl,
> - python-drizzle,
> - python-pyvo,
> - python-radio-beam,
> - python-reproject,
> - python-spectral-cube,
> - python-specutils,
> - python-stsci.tools,
> - python-sunpy.
>
> All these packages have Python 3 versions as well, so nothing is
> lost. The migration of the last package that was built on top of Python
> 2 (astrometry.net) is just started.
>
> This basically means that we will not have a substantial Python 2
> astronomy suport in Debian Buster, which will released next year. Keep
> in mind however, that End Of Life for Python 2 is April, 2020, and for
> Astropy 2.x it is already November, 2019.
>
> Please think carefully about the consequences, and raise your hand soon
> if you disagree and are willing to put your efforts in keeping Python 2
> astronomy in Debian Buster. Otherwise, I will start to open bug reports
> to remove the mentioned packages in ~ 2 weeks.
>
> Best
>
> Ole
>
>
> [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-astro/2018/11/msg00010.html
> [2] https://github.com/astropy/astropy/pull/8173
>
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