On Mon, Jul 07, 2014 at 10:47:28PM +0200, Karsten Hilbert wrote: > What's the current Debian position ?
Note that the debian-python team don't maintain packages of wxPython, so they really aren't the people to ask. For wx3, wxPython will be a separate source package to the C++ library (python-wxgtk2.8 is built from the wxwidgets2.8 source package), so they could take over maintenance if they wanted, but that's really a separate discussion. With my debian wx team hat on, I really can't see a python3-wxgtk2.8 package happening (upstream no longer work on the 2.8 branch, and in debian we're intending to do the bare minimum to wxwidgets2.8 until we can RM it). It would need someone to step forward and adapt upstream wxPython to work with python3, and then update the packaging accordingly, only to have all that work thrown away before jessie is released. If there was someone wanting to work on adapting the upstream code, it would make much more sense to work on wxPython 3.0 instead of 2.8. > From an upstream point of view it would be much preferrable to > have available a python3-wxgtk2.8 because that would not > force us to port to BOTH Python 3 AND wxPython 3 at the same > time. Once python-wxgtk3.0 is packaged (should be uploaded very soon), you could port to that without having to switch to python3. And in fact you'll have to wait until wxpython upstream support python3 to do that latter anyway. I don't have much idea what their timescale for this is though - it seems they're addressing python3 support via their "phoenix" reimplementation, and I haven't seen an indication of when that will get a stable release: http://wiki.wxpython.org/ProjectPhoenix/ProjectGoals So in summary, not really good news I'm afraid - if your package uses wxpython and something else which is dropping python2 support you're probably not going to be in for a fun time. Unfortunately, I don't think there's an easy solution to this. Cheers, Olly -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-python-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140722022050.GA6010@gemse
