Debian Bug report logs - #938792
vmdebootstrap: Python2 removal in sid/bullseye

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Message #5 received at maintonly@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Matthias Klose <doko@debian.org>

To: maintonly@bugs.debian.org

Subject: vmdebootstrap: Python2 removal in sid/bullseye

Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2019 07:58:05 +0000

Package: src:vmdebootstrap
Version: 1.11-2
Severity: normal
Tags: sid bullseye
User: debian-python@lists.debian.org
Usertags: py2removal

Python2 becomes end-of-live upstream, and Debian aims to remove
Python2 from the distribution, as discussed in
https://lists.debian.org/debian-python/2019/07/msg00080.html

Your package either build-depends, depends on Python2, or uses Python2
in the autopkg tests.  Please stop using Python2, and fix this issue
by one of the following actions.

- Convert your Package to Python3. This is the preferred option.  In
  case you are providing a Python module foo, please consider dropping
  the python-foo package, and only build a python3-foo package.  Please
  don't drop Python2 modules, which still have reverse dependencies,
  just document them.
  
  This is the preferred option.

- If the package is dead upstream, cannot be converted or maintained
  in Debian, it should be removed from the distribution.  If the
  package still has reverse dependencies, raise the severity to
  "serious" and document the reverse dependencies with the BTS affects
  command.  If the package has no reverse dependencies, confirm that
  the package can be removed, reassign this issue to ftp.debian.org,
  make sure that the bug priority is set to normal and retitle the
  issue to "RM: PKG -- removal triggered by the Python2 removal".

- If the package has still many users (popcon >= 300), or is needed to
  build another package which cannot be removed, document that by
  adding the "py2keep" user tag (not replacing the py2remove tag),
  using the debian-python@lists.debian.org user.  Also any
  dependencies on an unversioned python package (python, python-dev)
  must not be used, same with the python shebang.  These have to be
  replaced by python2/python2.7 dependencies and shebang.

  This is the least preferred option.

If the conversion or removal needs action on another package first,
please document the blocking by using the BTS affects command, like

  affects <bug number of blocking py2removal bug> + src:vmdebootstrap

If there is no py2removal bug for that reverse-dependency, please file
a bug on this package (similar to this bug report).

If there are questions, please refer to the wiki page for the removal:
https://wiki.debian.org/Python/2Removal, or ask for help on IRC
#debian-python, or the debian-python@lists.debian.org mailing list.

Message #10 received at 938792@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Neil Williams <codehelp@debian.org>

To: 938792@bugs.debian.org

Subject: vmdebootstrap Python3 support

Date: Sun, 1 Sep 2019 16:27:18 +0100

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vmdebootstrap does not have to use Python2. The code is able
to support Python3, it will need a little bit of testing.

I'm attaching a small set of patches for the packaging and the
generation of the documentation which allow the package to be built for
Python3. With cmdtest installed using it's Python2 support, the fast
yarn tests do at least pass. The slower build tests also work using
Python3, with a small change to look for 10 instead of 8
in /etc/debian_version of a stable test image.

The remaining issues are:

* The original upstream would prefer users to switch to vmdb2 but that
  is not a drop-in replacement.
* vmdebootstrap autopkgtests use cmdtest which is Python2 only but
  those could be dropped from the packaging.
* vmdebootstrap has reverse dependencies (live-wrapper) which are used
  in the creation of Debian Live images alongside the release process.
* vmdebootstrap, live-wrapper and the Debian live process all need
  ongoing maintenance.
* the slower build tests need updating for interim Debian releases
  before the archives for stretch disappear etc.

I'd be happy to put vmdebootstrap into Salsa as part of the Debian
Python team, with these patches, and update the build tests to current
releases, provided that others are willing to help with the other
issues.

-- 


Neil Williams
=============
http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/

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Message #41 received at 938792-done@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Chris Hofstaedtler <zeha@debian.org>

To: 938792-done@bugs.debian.org, 961963-done@bugs.debian.org, 947241-done@bugs.debian.org

Subject: vmdebootstrap has been removed

Date: Sun, 9 Oct 2022 11:32:33 +0200

Version: 1.11-2+rm1

Closing all src:vmdebootstrap bugs, per:
https://tracker.debian.org/news/1185469/removed-111-2-from-unstable/
  Subject: Bug#907751: Removed package(s) from unstable
  ROM; upstream discontinued, obsolete, better options exist

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