I don't think so ! I think debian will support python3 sooner or later, and give up python2 . This is a question of time . So although python-xlib upstream did not have update , if there is a need for it , I think there will be someone to maintain it for users !mudongliang
From: br...@microcomaustralia.com.au Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2015 01:37:06 +0000 Subject: Re: python3-xlib lost in Debian To: mudonglianga...@hotmail.com; debian-u...@lists.debian.org; debian-python@lists.debian.org On Mon, 27 Apr 2015 at 12:26 mudongliang <mudonglianga...@hotmail.com> wrote: Today I try to install a software - youdao dict. First I try it in vmware machine: Linuxmint and Ubuntu. It can succeed! But when I do it in Debian , it fails ; And the reason is the lost of python3-xlib. So I search in the web page of Debian: this package is not contained by Debian Jessie or Squeeze!They only have a package named python-xlib. The same to Ubuntu , it has. What happens about this package? Hello, I see you have already solved this. However, I have some comments to add. python-xlib's upstream is http://python-xlib.sourceforge.net/, and the last official release was made 2007-10-02, as such it is highly unlikely that upstream supports Python 3. However Ubuntu has a python3-xlib package; it would appear that Ubuntu have made changes (whether good or bad I don't know) to support Python 3, and these have not made there way back to the Debian version. As far as I can tell, there never has been a python3-xlib package in Debian. Regards
