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Re: Dropping Python 2 support for web.py before buster

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Quoting Mattia Rizzolo <mattia@debian.org>:
> On Tue, Jan 22, 2019 at 12:18:09PM +0100, W. Martin Borgert wrote:
>> I'm going to package the latest git master of web.py¹, because of
>> Python 3.7 compatibility. It has a new dependency on cheroot², which
>> has only a Python 3 version in Debian. I could ask Julien to provide a
>> Python 2 package of cheroot for buster, but I prefer to drop Python 2
>> support of web.py instead. Any opinions?
>
> I would say "go for the drop!!!" if not for the presence of a reverse
> dependency of the python2 package (rebuildd).  So IMHO the best would
> be:
>  * port rebuildd to py3
>  * drop the py2 package

Julien & Julien, how realistic is moving rebuildd³ to Python 3 for
buster? Or better upload cheroot with Python 2 support for now?
The update of web.py is, unfortunately, necessary for Python 3.7.

Cheers

¹https://tracker.debian.org/webpy
²https://tracker.debian.org/python-cheroot
³https://tracker.debian.org/rebuildd

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Dropping Python 2 support for web.py before buster "W. Martin Borgert" <debacle@debian.org> - 2019-01-22 12:20 +0100
  Re: Dropping Python 2 support for web.py before buster Mattia Rizzolo <mattia@debian.org> - 2019-01-22 12:40 +0100
    Re: Dropping Python 2 support for web.py before buster "W. Martin Borgert" <debacle@debian.org> - 2019-01-22 14:40 +0100
      Re: Dropping Python 2 support for web.py before buster Julien Danjou <acid@debian.org> - 2019-01-22 15:10 +0100
        Re: Dropping Python 2 support for web.py before buster Mattia Rizzolo <mattia@debian.org> - 2019-01-22 23:40 +0100
        Re: Dropping Python 2 support for web.py before buster "W. Martin Borgert" <debacle@debian.org> - 2019-01-22 23:40 +0100
        Re: Dropping Python 2 support for web.py before buster Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> - 2019-02-04 12:20 +0100
          Re: Dropping Python 2 support for web.py before buster "W. Martin Borgert" <debacle@debian.org> - 2019-02-04 22:40 +0100
      Re: Dropping Python 2 support for web.py before buster Julien Puydt <julien.puydt@laposte.net> - 2019-01-22 23:10 +0100

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