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Bug#918607: ITP: kthresher -- Purge Unused Kernels



Hi Philipp,

On 1/16/19 12:51 AM, Philipp Kern wrote:
> Am 07.01.2019 um 19:30 schrieb Darshaka Pathirana:
>> * Package name    : kthresher
>>   Version         : 1.3.1
>>   Upstream Author : Rackspace US, Inc.
>> * URL             : https://github.com/rackerlabs/kthresher
>> * License         : Apache
>>   Programming Lang: Python
>>   Description     : Purge Unused Kernels
>>
>> Tool to remove unused kernels that were installed automatically
>> This tool removes those kernel packages marked as candidate for autoremoval.
>> Those packages are generally installed via Unattended upgrade or
>> meta-packages. By default the latest kernel and manual installations are
>> marked to Never Auto Remove.
> 
> it looks like this doesn't support Python 3 yet and I suspect that new
> packages should. I'd suggest that instead of distutils' LooseVersion,
> which was never meant for that, you use apt_pkg.version_compare. To be
> fair it's not quite a Debian revision to parse but it's close enough
> that the tokenization from our algorithm should work fine to sort kernel
> versions.

Thank you for your feedback (I have forwarded your comment to the
upstream issue/PR[2]). Apart of the distutils.LooseVersion
problem, there have been also some other things in kthresher with
Python 3 problems. So yes, kthresher is currently lacking Python 3 support.

But upstream is working on it[1][2] and a new release is on the way.

[1] https://github.com/rackerlabs/kthresher/issues/53
[2] https://github.com/rackerlabs/kthresher/pull/61/

Regards,
 - Darsha

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