Quoting Ruben Undheim (2018-12-22 09:35:44) > Hi Jonas, > > > Feels wrong to me to add a new source package, when reason is that the > > current/old source package is abandoned upstream! > > Yes, it may sound a bit strange, but the same has been done for other > packages (https://bugs.debian.org/911453). I think it is the most > straightforward way to go if we really need to keep the Python2 > version while including the newest (python 3-only) upstream version. > But I agree it can be argued if we really need to keep the Python2 > version. Question is if we should include unmaintained project forks in stable. What you do with this ITP is essentially forking an upstream project, and I object to that, arguing that you/we should instead _maintain_ the existing package we already have for that upstream project. There might be situations where it makes sense to take over maintenance of an upstream-abandoned fork of a (previously) upstream project. Perfectly fine with me if you tell me that this is such case - but then please elaborate on the plans for the existing python-zeroconf package. > > A quick look seems to indicate these two reverse dependencies: > > > > * pulseaudio-dlna > > * python-pychromecast > > python-pychromecast has already been removed from Debian (source > package), so the only problem is "pulseaudio-dlna". > > > Neither of those seem to have a bugreport warning that > > python-zeroconf is unmaintained upstream. > > pulseaudio-dlna has this bug report https://bugs.debian.org/894806 > filed in April which blocks https://bugs.debian.org/894809. > python-zeroconf was removed from the source package in October. Ah, my look-up-bts skills are clearly inferior to yours :-) > > They seem to both a) have no reverse dependencies themselves, and b) > > having similar features as python3-pychromecast which uses > > python3-zeroconf. > > > > It seems best to me to try get those few packages to either use a > > maintained library or maybe avoid shipping them with Buster. > > I think you are right in that it is better to patch pulseaudio-dlna to > run in Python 3, but I am unsure how tricky it is because it has quite > a few Python dependencies. I have not checked yet if they are all > available for Python 3. > > > Could you please file bugreports appropriately? > > Do you perhaps mean raising the severity of #894806? Yes, now that you opened my eyes, that is what I mean :-) - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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