Considering that this is bzr we are talking about, a package that is already entering the graveyard, I think it would be easiest to just disable the test suite and move on.
But I would be happier it Thomas at least checked the rdeps before dropping packages, at least evaluating if breaking things is alrightif he really likes to break packages :/
On 15 September 2019 01:15:11 CEST, Scott Kitterman <debian@kitterman.com> wrote:
>On Saturday, September 14, 2019 6:43:13 PM EDT Thomas Goirand wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> As I wrongly thought python-extras was used only by OpenStack stuff,
>I
>> removed Python 2 support for it. Then someone filed a bug against
>> python-testtools (ScottK, I believe) saying that it became RC.
>> Therefore, I went ahead and removed Python 2 support for testtools,
>but
>> now, this implies that a few packages which I didn't wish to impact
>are
>> also RC:
>>
>> * bzr-builddeb
>> * bzr-email
>> * bzr-fastimport
>> * bzr-git
>> * bzr-stats
>> * bzr-upload
>> * loggerhead
>>
>> So, basically, unfortunately, Bazaar has lost some of its build
>> dependencies.
>>
>> So, I went ahead, and looked what I could do for Bazaar.
>Unfortunately,
>> when looking at:
>> https://launchpad.net/bzr
>>
>> I can see no release since January 2016, no daily archive. The last
>> commit in the bzr repository of bzr is from 2017-03-17.
>>
>> Then I went to see how much Python 3 effort would be needed, and I
>> quickly gave up. It'd be A LOT of work, but nobody seems doing ANY
>work
>> on bzr anymore.
>>
>> So I wonder: is it time to remove bazaar from Debian? Or is there any
>> vague plan to make it work with Python 3? If we are to remove it from
>> Debian, then we'd better do it ASAP.
>
>As I understand it, bazaar (bzr) is dead and being replaced by breezy
>(brz),
>which is python3 compatible.
>
>https://www.breezy-vcs.org/
>
>My inference is that anything bzr specific can go, but I'm not involved
>in
>either project.
Bzr maintainer / breezy upstream here.
I'm planning to upload transitional packages to trigger upgrades from bzr to Breezy.
The packages for that are not ready yet though. Can we undo the dropping of python-testtools in the meantime?
Jelmer