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Re: Removing py2 support from python-xattr

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On Saturday, August 24, 2019 6:28:10 PM EDT Thomas Goirand wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I came across python-xattr, which I know well because it's used in
> Swift. I went to investigate it's reverse dependencies, and discovered
> that it's py2 version is only used by calendarserver, which itself, is
> py2 only upstream, and is full of py2-ism that would need to be fixed
> (and the work is really non-trivial and huge).
> 
> Since we decided to work on leaf packages only, what to do in this case,
> as it doesn't look like calendarserver will be fixed anytime soon? Shall
> we wait? For how long? I've of course filed a bug against
> calendarserver, but I'm quite sure this wont be enough to get things moving.
> 
> Please, let's generalize and see the whole picture. There will be A LOT
> more cases like this one, and I don't think that waiting forever will
> solve the situation. It is my opinion that we should set a kind of
> policy (ie: wait for how long?) and then act...

If it were me, I'd go ahead and file a serious bug indicating a dependency of 
the package is about to be removed.

Scott K

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Re: Removing py2 support from python-xattr Scott Kitterman <debian@kitterman.com> - 2019-08-25 02:10 +0200
  Re: Removing py2 support from python-xattr Mattia Rizzolo <mattia@debian.org> - 2019-08-25 10:30 +0200

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