Hello Nathan, Nathan Scott [2020-01-07 11:18 +1100]: > Thanks for looking into this issue while we were all off, Martin and Sunil! > > To summarise where I understand things are at now: Martin's uploaded > a pcp package for rebuild which drops the python2 build steps. I think > this is fine and solves the immediate, pressing issue.
My pleasure -- the NMU did probably not clean up some bits in the control.master etc. bits, but it should be good enough to get into testing and fix the RC bug/avoid being kicked out of testing indeed. > Ken and Andreas, this would mean we set Debian8 (and the equivalent > Ubuntu release) as the minimum required for Makepkgs builds. Would > that be a problem for anyone? It turns out that was the first Debian that > used systemd as the init system, so there's a possibility of several other > useful packaging cleanups if we take this path. Note that Debian 8 went EOL some time ago. There are some efforts to provide security update maintenance for it, but that doesn't mean that you still have to support it upstream -- these security updates would only do selected patch backports, not new upstream releases. Debian 9 should still be supported for roughly another half year. (See https://www.debian.org/releases/) Thanks, Martin
