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

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Le 2022-02-04 à 11 h 24, Nilesh Patra a écrit :
> On 2/4/22 9:33 PM, Julian Gilbey wrote:
>>>> _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.
>>
>> This is true, though there are only 7 reverse dependencies currently
>> in testing.
> 
> Yeah, in total the reverse-deps are 8 and there is one different 
> reverse-build-dep (pasted at end of this mail)
> But the problem is if these fall through the cracks, and close to the 
> release we notice some
> package is not looking nice.
> 
> Also, if you suppose that the upstreams are very slow, and we get to the 
> new debian release with these things still
> embedded, it'd be a real mess to upload fixes to stable, right...
> 
>>> 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.
>>
>> That would be a reasonable approach, but how long will it take for the
>> dust to settle?  With this major change, and no guidance from upstream
>> on how to migrate, and at least a number of upstream authors happy to
>> rely on setup.py having "mistune <1.0.0" in the install_requires
>> field, it might be several months or longer before things are fixed
>> upstream.
> I think we could do this transition even a month or two before the soft 
> freeze starts,
> which is roughly an year from now (considering general trend timings of 
> starting in feb in release year).
> Situation might improve by then, I suppose.
> 
> If it does not, we could still go ahead with the older python3-mistune 
> in the archive, I do not see
> a huge problem there, except for maybe a few mistune uploads to stable 
> if desired.
> 
>> And what do we do when some packages have converted and
>> some haven't?
> 
> In such a case, we atleast will have a few examples to see how to go 
> about doing the API changes the right way.
> We could patch out at our end and send the changes upstream for review 
> provided we are stuck in an unfortunate situation.

FWIW, there's a recent patch and PR for the lektor upstream which add 
mistune 2.x support, so for this particular project I don't think a 
separate package is necessary.

-- Jerome

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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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