Anybody volunteering to try to save falcon in Debian (Was: Bug#936503: falcon: Python2 removal in sid/bullseye)
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- Subject: Anybody volunteering to try to save falcon in Debian (Was: Bug#936503: falcon: Python2 removal in sid/bullseye)
- From: Andreas Tille <andreas@an3as.eu>
- Date: Sat, 6 Jun 2020 16:51:27 +0200
- Message-id: <[🔎] 20200606145127.GJ9835@an3as.eu>
- In-reply-to: <20200606143138.GA142850@pisco.westfalen.local>
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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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