Summary of python transition problems

[Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>]

(cc'ed to -release for general information)

Hi folks,

Here's a summary of the problems currently blocking python2.3 from
testing. It may be slightly incomplete, but I think I've got most of
them.


Buggy packages
==============

  * garchiver: #210828

  * gimp-python: #207304

  * lincredits: conflicts with newer python, waiting for bug number

  * pyddr: blocked by pydance bug, #212845

  * python-imaging: #212853, blocks forg, sketch

  * quantlib-python: #213089 (mips buildd problem?)


python-gnome
============

  * python-gnome is waiting for a newer freetype, which should be fairly
    easy, and needs to wait out its 10-day delay.

  * python-gnome is lacking a mips build for some reason. This
    contributes to holding back a lot of other packages: affix,
    configlet, glimmer, gnome-tasksel, pydict, pyne, sql-editor, xkeysw,
    and zwm at least.

  * Other packages waiting for python-gnome: gimp-python, pybliographer,
    python-gtkextra.


External dependencies
=====================

  * ecasound2.2: jack-audio-connection-kit (complicated; may have to
    remove ecasound2.2 from testing temporarily to simplify things)

  * glimmer: freetype (should be simple)

  * python-gd: freetype (should be simple)

  * python-gnome2: nautilus (being worked on by GNOME team, blocks
    eroaster, routeplanner)

  * python-ldap: cyrus-sasl2 (#211156, #212318, #212945; needs heimdal
    and krb4; heimdal is also buggy, #205592; krb4 needs a mips build)


Missing builds
==============

  * affix: hppa

  * ecasound: mips mipsel

  * ecasound2.2: mips

  * gaby: m68k mips

  * libapache2-mod-python: powerpc

  * newt: hppa

  * pyogg: mipsel

  * python-gnome2: s390

  * python-gtkextra: hppa mips

  * pyvorbis: mipsel, blocks jack, mc-foo

  * xkeysw: hppa


Normal pre-testing delays
=========================

  * affix (2 of 10)

  * fixedpoint (4 of 10)

  * gimp-python (2 of 10)

  * gnome-tasksel (2 of 10)

  * newt (5 of 10)

  * nicotine (3 of 10, blocks pyslsk)

  * pydict (2 of 10)

  * pyne (3 of 10)

  * python-gtkextra (2 of 10)

  * python-happydoc (4 of 10)

  * python-pmw (1 of 10, blocks forg, mc-foo, med-bio, pktei, pymol)

  * python-scientific (2 of 10)

  * python-stats (4 of 10)

  * pyvtk (0 of 10)

  * solarwolf (4 of 10)

  * sql-editor (2 of 10)

  * xkeysw (2 of 10)

  * zwm (2 of 10)


Hope that helps with NMU planning and so on. It would be helpful if we
could regard Python packages as being in a mini-freeze for the moment,
with RC bug fixes only; having to wait for lots of 10-day testing delays
is going to be a pain otherwise.

Cheers,

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]