On 18.10.18 14:28, Antoine Beaupré wrote: > On 2018-10-18 13:26:28, Julian Taylor wrote: >> On 18.10.18 01:07, Antoine Beaupré wrote: >>> On 2018-10-18 00:16:15, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote: >>>> Package: foolscap >>>> Version: 0.13.1-1 >>>> Severity: serious >>>> >>>> txtorcon does not build the Python2 variant (python-txtorcon) since its >>>> last upload, only the python3 one (python3-txtorcon) remains. >>>> >>>> As of now the package can't be built due to missing packages. >>> >>> Seems to me foolscap should be ported to python rather than to force >>> txtorcon to support a (soon to be) obsolete version of python. :) >>> >> >> foolscap is based on twisted which seems to have gotten python3 support >> recently. First one has to check if foolscap can work with python3 twisted. >> >> Please do not remove python2 packages from the bottom up, start from the >> dependency leaves and work down instead of just breaking everything above. >> txtorcon still supports python2 according to their github page. > > If you look at the txtorcon removal, you'll see it fixed RC bugs about > the py2 version, so it was not just a gratitious change... > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=905253 > > A. >
that bug looks more like a packaging error or fixable installation error than a bug in the py2 version. removing the py2 package making other packages rc buggy looks like overkill without prior consultation of reverse dependencies.
