Hello everyone. I'm working on packaging of psycopg3 (ITP #994860, home page https://www.psycopg.org/psycopg3/), which is successor of psycopg2 (maintained by team), supporting Python3 features like asycio and with new architecture.
Current upstream version is 3.0.beta1, beta2 in preparation. When preparing package, I made sure it's lintian-clean; it's also running tests (some are failing - not sure if this is problem with package or recently-uploaded PostgreSQL 14). There are still some issues I'd like to fix before uploading though. Psycopg3 differs from psycopg2: it consists of 3 modules. Two of them (psycopg and psycopg_pool) are pure Python so I intend to make them arch: all. They might also support PyPy, but I haven't yet succeeded in doing so. They use ctypes to talk to libpq for PostgreSQL communication, which makes it slower than psycopg2. Third module, psycopg_c, uses Cython to build code communicating with libpq, which makes it faster than ctypes. But it requires cython 3.0.alpha5. Currently Debian has cython3 0.29.21 (and cython 0.29.14); latest stable upstream version is 0.29.24 (psycopg3 does not work with it - I checked) and development version is 3.0.alpha9. So my question is - which route to take now? Cython is team's package and it could use some attention. It was not updated in 11 months, uses really old debhelper (7), lintian complains heavily about it, there are 7 issues in BTS... Should I upload 3.0.alpha9 to unstable (maybe blocking transition to testing), and later try to fix most of its problems, uploading psycopg3 to unstable shortly after? Or should I first upload 3.0.alpha9 to experimetnal, trying to fix most of issues there, and upload to sid only when it reaches 3.0.final? This is important package, so I'd like to get some opinions before proceeding. And also - what should we do with cython (not cython3), in our quest to migrate from Python2? On similar topic - should I upload newest version of psycopg2 (removing *dbg package at the same time)? Debian has 2.8.6 while latest upstream is 2.9.1. It's less invasive change than in case of cython, but I'd still like to get some opinions, or at least acknowledgement. Best regards. -- Tomasz Rybak, Debian Developer <serp...@debian.org> GPG: A565 CE64 F866 A258 4DDC F9C7 ECB7 3E37 E887 AA8C
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