Re: Bug#967209: rgtk2: Unversioned Python removal in sid/bullseye
On 4 August 2020 at 15:06, Matthias Klose wrote:
| block 967209 by 967157
| thanks
|
| sorry, that's due to uninstallability of libglade2-dev.
Thanks, that makes sense.
(And thanks also to Julien, that was a good idea too but it does come up
negative:
edd@rob:~/deb/rgtk2(master)$ grep -ri Python
inst/doc/tutorial.sgml:bindings for many other languages including C, C++, Guile, Perl, Python,
edd@rob:~/deb/rgtk2(master)$
Dirk
| On 8/4/20 2:49 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
| >
| > 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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