Re: Bug#967209: rgtk2: Unversioned Python removal in sid/bullseye

[Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org>]

Hi doko and Python folks,

On 4 August 2020 at 09:29, Matthias Klose wrote:
| Package: src:rgtk2
| Version: 2.20.36-2
| Severity: serious
| Tags: sid bullseye
| User: debian-python@lists.debian.org
| Usertags: py2unversioned
| 
| Python2 becomes end-of-live upstream, and Debian aims to remove
| Python2 from the distribution, as discussed in
| https://lists.debian.org/debian-python/2019/07/msg00080.html
| 
| We will keep some Python2 package as discussed in
| https://lists.debian.org/debian-python/2020/07/msg00039.html
| but removing the unversioned python packages python-minimal, python,
| python-dev, python-dbg, python-doc.
| 
| Your package either build-depends, depends on one of those packages.
| Please either convert these packages to Python3, or if that is not
| possible, replaces the dependencies on the unversioned Python
| packages with one of the python2 dependencies (python2, python2-dev,
| python2-dbg, python2-doc).
| 
| Please check for dependencies, build dependencies AND autopkg tests.

I am lost.

Build-Depends:
  Source: rgtk2
  Section: gnu-r
  Priority: optional
  Maintainer: Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org>
  Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 10), dh-r (>= 20180615), r-base-dev (>= 3.6.1), libgtk2.0-dev (>= 2.10.12), libglade2-dev, libpango1.0-dev, libcairo2-dev
  Standards-Version: 4.4.0
  Vcs-Browser: https://salsa.debian.org/edd/r-cran-rgtk2
  Vcs-Git: https://salsa.debian.org/edd/r-cran-rgtk2.git
  Homepage: https://cran.r-project.org/package=RGtk2

Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 10), dh-r (>= 20180615), r-base-dev (>= 3.6.1), libgtk2.0-dev (>= 2.10.12), libglade2-dev, libpango1.0-dev, libcairo2-dev

Depends:
  Package: r-cran-rgtk2
  Source: rgtk2 (2.20.36-2)
  Version: 2.20.36-2+b1
  Installed-Size: 18722
  Maintainer: Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org>
  Architecture: amd64
  Depends: r-base-core (>= 4.0.0-3), r-api-4.0, libatk1.0-0 (>= 1.12.4), libc6 (>= 2.14), libcairo2 (>= 1.8.0), libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 (>= 2.22.0), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.41.1), libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.20.0), libpango-1.0-0 (>= 1.25.5), libpangocairo-1.0-0 (>= 1.22.0)
  Description-en: GNU R binding for Gtk2
  [...]

Where is python coming in from, and what could I change?  Is it libglade2 ?

If we cannot change and must remove it that would be, I guess, defensible.
The package and the related ones are a little end-of-life-ish, but have not
yet been removed from CRAN either so there is need for imminent action for
removal. We could remove it but that is likely to annoy a user or two, and
"as users are our priority" I suggest to keep it ... but I need a helping
hand here.

| If there are questions, please refer to the wiki page for the removal:
| https://wiki.debian.org/Python/2Removal, or ask for help on IRC
| #debian-python, or the debian-python@lists.debian.org mailing list.

d-p CC'ed.

Thanks,  Dirk

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