Re: py2removal RC severity updates - 2019-12-22 17:36:38.269399+00:00

[Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org>]

Control: severity 942941 normal
Control: user debian-python@lists.debian.org
Control: usertags 942941 + py2keep

On Sun, 22 Dec 2019 at 12:36:38 -0500, Sandro Tosi wrote:
> # python-dbus-tests is a module and has 0 external rdeps or not in testing
> severity 942941 serious

I do not consider this to justify a release-critical bug at this stage.

src:dbus-python cannot drop its Python 2 support until all of the reverse
dependencies of python-dbus have done so (or been removed from testing, but
that's unlikely to happen while they include key packages like avahi,
jackd2 and pyqt5).

As long as python-dbus exists, there is little or no cost to having
python-dbus-tests continue to be built by the same source package, and
I would be reluctant to have python-dbus exist in the archive without
its automated tests also being present.

I also don't think it's appropriate to escalate the severity of the Python
2 removal bug for an entire source package just because *one* of its
binary packages is a leaf: the criterion should probably be *all* of
its Python 2 binary packages being leaf packages. (See also
libpython2.7-testsuite in #937569, which seems to have a similar issue.)

Thanks,
    smcv