Bug#922565: ITA: tortoisehg -- Graphical tool for working with Mercurial
Hi,
On Tue, 26 Nov 2019 at 15:47, Andrej Shadura <andrewsh@debian.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 26 Nov 2019 at 15:39, peter green <plugwash@p10link.net> wrote:
> > I notice after removal from unstable tortoisehg is back in new.
> >
> > However it seems that the package still build-depends on python 2 packages. In particular it depends on python-pyqt5.qsci which has been dropped by the qscintilla2 source package and decrufted from bullseye/sid.
> >
> > It seems to me that if this package is going to make a comeback it needs to migrate to python 3.
> >
> > (note: I am just a random dd who stubled across this package, the final descision of course rests with the ftpmasters and release team).
>
> The upstream package is being ported to Python 3 and reportedly works,
> but I understand we need to keep it in Python 2 until Mercurial also
> switches to Python 3 (also work in progress).
Oh, Gudjon pushed the update into unstable despite my request to hold
it off, thus making it impossible for TortoiseHg to come back.
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Cheers,
Andrej
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