Bug#958138: RM: python-gmpy/oldstable -- ROM; dead upstream, needs Python 2

[Martin Kelly <martin@martingkelly.com>]

Package: ftp.debian.org
Severity: normal

This package has been dead upstream for many years now (the final release was
1.17, in 2013). It's superceded by gmpy2, which is already packaged as
python3-gmpy2. All reverse dependencies are currently removed from unstable as
they don't support Python 3. Even if they weren't, the reverse dependencies can
could all use gmpy2 if they are at some point patched to support Python 3 and
added back into unstable:

$ apt-cache rdepends python-gmpy
python-gmpy
Reverse Depends:
  obfsproxy
  python-tlslite-ng
  python-sympy
  python-gmpy-doc

obfsproxy and python-sympy support gmpy2 in source code, though the packaging
doesn't depend on it. If these packages ever came back (by supporting Python
3), they could add a dependency on python3-gmpy2 instead.

python-tlslite-ng does not support gmpy2, but it uses gmpy in a trivial way
(uses 5 functions or so in a single location, with easy gmpy2 replacements).
Thus it could be easily patched.