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Subject: Re: Packages depending on python-testtools are now RC: is bzr still a thing?
Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2019 01:20:01 +0200
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On Saturday, September 14, 2019 6:43:13 PM EDT Thomas Goirand wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> As I wrongly thought python-extras was used only by OpenStack stuff, I
> removed Python 2 support for it. Then someone filed a bug against
> python-testtools (ScottK, I believe) saying that it became RC.
> Therefore, I went ahead and removed Python 2 support for testtools, but
> now, this implies that a few packages which I didn't wish to impact are
> also RC:
> 
> * bzr-builddeb
> * bzr-email
> * bzr-fastimport
> * bzr-git
> * bzr-stats
> * bzr-upload
> * loggerhead
> 
> So, basically, unfortunately, Bazaar has lost some of its build
> dependencies.
> 
> So, I went ahead, and looked what I could do for Bazaar. Unfortunately,
> when looking at:
> https://launchpad.net/bzr
> 
> I can see no release since January 2016, no daily archive. The last
> commit in the bzr repository of bzr is from 2017-03-17.
> 
> Then I went to see how much Python 3 effort would be needed, and I
> quickly gave up. It'd be A LOT of work, but nobody seems doing ANY work
> on bzr anymore.
> 
> So I wonder: is it time to remove bazaar from Debian? Or is there any
> vague plan to make it work with Python 3? If we are to remove it from
> Debian, then we'd better do it ASAP.

As I understand it, bazaar (bzr) is dead and being replaced by breezy (brz), 
which is python3 compatible.

https://www.breezy-vcs.org/

My inference is that anything bzr specific can go, but I'm not involved in 
either project.

Scott K