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Bug#1003567: Please make a separate package for mistune 2.x

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Le 4 février 2022 16:57:59 GMT+01:00, Nilesh Patra <nilesh@tchncs.de> a écrit :
>On 2/4/22 9:18 PM, Julian Gilbey wrote:
>> Basically, the mistune upstream author has completely messed up on
>> this by making what is essentially a completely different package with
>> superficially similar functionality but the same name.
>
>True.
>  
>> [...]
>> _mistune.py within the Debian package,
>> and have nbconvert do "import nbconvert.filters._mistune as mistune"
>> (see /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/nbconvert/filters/markdown_mistune.py).
>> That seems like an eminently sensible solution to this problem.
>
>But that'd lead to a number of mistune's embedded copies in a huge number of packages; since majority of
>the rev-deps (when I last checked) haven't adapted to this new version. When they do,
>and it becomes a overhead to fix each one later.
>Even worse, if we discover a security problem sometime later, then all such packages would be
>effected, and that honestly does not look like a good idea to me.
>
>I somehow do not understand the urgency of uploading this newer version, as the maintainer said:
>
>| I intend to upload src:mistune 2.0.0 to unstable between March the
>| 15th and April the 15th (depending on the progress of its
>| reverse-dependencies).
>
>We could simply wait a little more for the dust to settle, IMHO.
>
>Regards,
>Nilesh
>

Because some packages I maintain depend on mistune 2.x and mistune 0.8.4 is, whether we like it or not, obsolete.

I can't really afford to wait for a year to try having mailman3 in testing again...
--
Pierre-Elliott Bécue
From my phone

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Bug#1003567: Please make a separate package for mistune 2.x "Michael R. Crusoe" <crusoe@debian.org> - 2022-01-24 11:50 +0100
  Bug#1003567: Please make a separate package for mistune 2.x Pierre-Elliott Bécue <peb@debian.org> - 2022-02-03 23:40 +0100
    Bug#1003567: Please make a separate package for mistune 2.x Julian Gilbey <julian@d-and-j.net> - 2022-02-04 17:10 +0100
      Bug#1003567: Please make a separate package for mistune 2.x Nilesh Patra <nilesh@tchncs.de> - 2022-02-04 17:30 +0100
        Bug#1003567: Please make a separate package for mistune 2.x Jerome Charaoui <jerome@riseup.net> - 2022-02-04 18:40 +0100
    Bug#1003567: Please make a separate package for mistune 2.x Julian Gilbey <julian@d-and-j.net> - 2022-02-04 17:10 +0100
      Bug#1003567: Please make a separate package for mistune 2.x Nilesh Patra <nilesh@tchncs.de> - 2022-02-04 17:10 +0100
        Bug#1003567: Please make a separate package for mistune 2.x Pierre-Elliott Bécue <peb@debian.org> - 2022-02-04 17:40 +0100
        Bug#1003567: Please make a separate package for mistune 2.x Julian Gilbey <julian@d-and-j.net> - 2022-02-05 20:00 +0100
          Bug#1003567: Please make a separate package for mistune 2.x Nilesh Patra <nilesh@tchncs.de> - 2022-02-05 20:30 +0100
            Bug#1003567: Please make a separate package for mistune 2.x Pierre-Elliott Bécue <peb@debian.org> - 2022-02-05 23:00 +0100
              Bug#1003567: Please make a separate package for mistune 2.x Sandro Tosi <morph@debian.org> - 2022-02-05 23:00 +0100

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