Hi, Il 05/12/19 17:55, Dimitri John Ledkov ha scritto: > In principal I agree, in practice the only broken app today is ledger, > which should have by now uploaded without a python bridge enabled; or > build with python3 bridge as now available from upstream master (ported > by me after this issue was filed / escalated).
Thanks for working on ledger, but it is not the only affected application. At least mirage is affected too. Are you sure there are not others? How? > And no, unstable is not supported and frequently has uninstallable > packages, multiple known regressions, RC bugs, and automated autopkgtest > regressions. One should only dist-upgrade unstable packages they use, if > they are ok with the RC bugs and autopkgtest regressions automatically > identified in the builds anyway. Thus no, I will not be making > incremental uploads, to temporarily unbreak unstable users, using hacks > which are not the way we intend to ship in testing later as that is > added churn and drag on the development (ie. port/rebuild ledger in this > case). I don't agree. I ordinarily use unstable and usually everything runs fine. There are breakages every now and then, and I know that if unstable breaks I keep the pieces. But this does not mean that one should do that on purpose. There can be situations in which this is unavoidable, but clearly this is not one of those: there is not harm in keeping Python 2 enabled as long as users are still using it. Therefore I will upload a new version of boost1.67 temporarily reverting your patch. By the way, I don't think that boost1.67 will go in bullseye anyway: I hope to get rid of it well before that. So the point here is not getting the package in shape for the release; it is just avoid making the life of unstable's users unnecessarily complicated. Also, I hope to finish working on 1.71 as soon as possible, so that we can start that migration. Thanks, Giovanni. -- Giovanni Mascellani <g.mascell...@gmail.com> Postdoc researcher - Université Libre de Bruxelles
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