Anybody volunteering to try to save falcon in Debian (Was: Bug#936503: falcon: Python2 removal in sid/bullseye)

[Andreas Tille <andreas@an3as.eu>]

Hi,

On Sat, Jun 06, 2020 at 04:31:38PM +0200, Moritz Mühlenhoff wrote:
> > Your package either build-depends, depends on Python2, or uses Python2
> > in the autopkg tests.  Please stop using Python2, and fix this issue
> > by one of the following actions.
> 
> It appears this was turned non-free, they only distribute binaries and even those are still dependant
> on Python 2: https://github.com/PacificBiosciences/FALCON_unzip/wiki/Binaries

Argh.
 
> | Which binary do I need?
> | 
> | That depends on your python2.7 Unicode size. Almost certainly, you want "ucs4", but you can check this way:
> | 
> | python2.7 -c 'import sysconfig,pprint; pprint.pprint(sysconfig.get_config_vars()["Py_UNICODE_SIZE"])'
> | 
> | (We do not support python3.)
> 
> So let's remove it from the archive?

Any reader of the Debian Med list who wants to spent time to discuss this
with upstream to save falcon in Debian?

Kind regards

       Andreas.

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