Re: Bug#934398: RM: beanstalkc -- ROM; no Python 3 subpackage and no reverse deps
[Cc-ing debian-python]
Hi Andrey,
On 21:53 Sat 10 Aug , Andrey Rahmatullin wrote:
> Package: ftp.debian.org
> Severity: normal
>
> The code seems to support Python 3 but there is no subpackage.
>
> Reverse deps checked by dak rm -Rnb python-beanstalkc
beanstalkc is used by beanstalkd's DEP-8 tests, which as a consequence
have just been broken. The fact that dak doesn't care about autopkgtests
makes `dak rm -Rnb` especially tricky and we shouldn't rely on just that
to get an idea whether a package can be safely removed or not. It would
be nice if dak had a notion of "Test-Depends" of course, but I don't
think this information exists in the archive's metadata currently.
While I understand the urge to get Python 2 out of bullseye as early as
possible, I don't feel happy about how this particular case was handled,
and I notice that it is not in agreement with what was posted on
debian-python[1].
In all honesty and leaving [1] aside, I would very much have preferred
if you had done one of the following instead:
- Open an RC bug on the package to add Python-3 support in the first
place, which would have given me more time to react and at least
spare me writing this e-mail and filing for an ITP in the middle of
August
- X-Debbugs-Cc beanstalkc@packages.debian.org at bug report time,
as finding out at the time of *removal* is arguably too late.
Please keep these in mind before filing for future removals.
Regards,
Apollon
[1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-python/2019/07/msg00080.html
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