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Re: Webpage to track py2removal bugs & packages



On Saturday, August 31, 2019 2:31:36 AM EDT Sandro Tosi wrote:
> Hello,
> i've prepared a small website,
> http://sandrotosi.me/debian/py2removal/index.html, to keep track of
> the bugs user-tagged `py2removal`.
> 
> * i'm sure there are bugs
> * it's pretty brutal html, but should provide useful information
> * it tries to account for crufted binary packages
> * it ignores the package if the py2removal bug is closed (that means
> you can remove a pkg with rdeps and not be identified by this page)
> * since py2removal bugs are against src pkg, the script gets the
> binary package and work only on the ones depending on python2 packages
> * it's sorted with packages with 0 or few r-deps at the top, which
> ideally are packages "easy" to get py2 removed from
> * there's a graph too, which gives a more visual representation of the
> rdeps; it's currently at level=1 (ie only the target package + the
> direct reverse-dependencies are shown), i'll consider expand it to
> level=3/4
> * for now it's juts a single snapshot; if considered useful i'll to to
> keep it updated regularly (but my laptop is not always on anyway)
> 
> let me know if you consider it helpful and/or it should include more
> information to make it more interesting.

I definitely think it will be helpful.  Thanks for putting it together.  It's 
the best thing I've seen yet for answering the question of what can we try to 
kill off now.

Please keep it updated.

Scott K



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