On 9/7/19 6:05 AM, Sandro Tosi wrote: > control: severity -1 serious > > On Mon, 30 Oct 2017 10:46:21 +0800 Drew Parsons <[email protected]> wrote: >> python-turbogears2 is currently only provided as a python2 module. >> >> Could you please also package the python3 version? >> i.e. provide python3-turbogears2 > > Raising severity as we need to assess and draw a path forward for tg > > currently: > * upstream claims https://github.com/TurboGears/tg2/ compatibility > with python3.7 > * python-turbogears2 has no reverse dependencies > * it has quite low popcon of 16 > * we are actually shipping version 2.3.7, that was released in October 2015 > (!) > > Here i see only 2 ways: > > * remove turbogears2 (let's face it, it _lost_ the web frameworks > battle; back in the days you could hear people talking about tg, > nowadays, iet's either django or flask..) > * move tg to python3. > > given the relative low interest for tg in debian (see popcon) it's > probably easier to just remove it, but i would not be against > upgrading it to the latest version and provide *only* the python3 > package, if this is done in the next few weeks. > > I'll follow up in a week if i dont hear anything back. > > Thanks, > Sandro
Hi Sandro, I agree with what you wrote, let's remove tg from Debian, unless Laszlo has interest in upgrading and continuing the maintenance. Thomas
