Re: Status of pythondialog in Debian

[Tristan Seligmann]

On 17 October 2014 17:59, Florent Rougon  wrote:
> Barry Warsaw  wrote:
>
>> Please note that this is not a team-maintained package.  We could do a
>> non-maintainer upload of it, but I'd rather see either 1) Adam, the current
>> maintainer CC'd here, update the package, or 2) have Adam move the package to
>> the Debian Python team, where we could collectively maintain it going
>> forward.
>
> As Mathias pointed out, the package in Debian has been abandoned for a
> long time...

Indeed. #673962 was switched from O to ITA due to a pending package in
mentors, but the package was removed from mentors after some
inactivity and there was no further progress.

>> That's excellent, thanks, and should help us (either the team or Adam) update
>> the package.  Would you be able to file a bug on the package in Debian, and
>> attach a diff (debdiff) of your packaging changes?
>>
>> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?dist=unstable;package=python-dialog
>
> I'm not sure it is the way to go: current pythondialog versions only
> support Python 3, although I made a backport of version 3.0.1 to
> Python 2 (). The
> implication is that python-dialog (currently in Debian) and
> python3-dialog (as mentioned in my previous message) are different
> source packages, built from different upstream tarballs.

There are no reverse dependencies of python-dialog in Debian, and the
popcon count is quite low (127). Combined with the fact that you do
not intend to support the package upstream on Python 2, I think it
would just make sense to remove the Python 2 package from Debian.
However, I don't think it is misleading to upload the Python 3 package
as the same source package since this is really a later version of the
same pythondialog from the same upstream author; and this would
require less administrative overhead than uploading a new source
package (which would need to go through full NEW processing) and
asking for the old one to be removed just to accomplish what is
effectively a change in the name of the source package.

Thus I intend to take over the existing ITA and inject Florent's
source package into DPMT now, under the old source package name
(pythondialog), and review it for upload. Florent, would you like to
be listed as one of the package co-maintainers? If you don't intend to
work on the packaging in future, then there's no point in doing this,
but you would be welcome to join DPMT and participate in the work on
this package in future if you're interested in doing this.
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Re: Status of pythondialog in Debian

[Florent Rougon]

Hi,

Tristan Seligmann  wrote:

> Thus I intend to take over the existing ITA and inject Florent's
> source package into DPMT now, under the old source package name
> (pythondialog), and review it for upload. Florent, would you like to
> be listed as one of the package co-maintainers? If you don't intend to
> work on the packaging in future, then there's no point in doing this,
> but you would be welcome to join DPMT and participate in the work on
> this package in future if you're interested in doing this.

Your analysis of the situation sounds good to me, and the solution you
propose would allow to have something up-to-date in jessie, which would
be difficult otherwise because of the short time before the freeze. I
would be glad to be co-maintainer of the package. (I am a former DD, so
maybe there is some account (frn) to reuse instead of creating a new
one...)

Thank you

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Re: Status of pythondialog in Debian

[Tristan Seligmann]

On 19 October 2014 14:40, Florent Rougon  wrote:
> would be glad to be co-maintainer of the package. (I am a former DD, so
> maybe there is some account (frn) to reuse instead of creating a new
> one...)

Looks like your Debian account is marked emeritus; if you wish to
re-activate it you could follow the process described here:

https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/developer-duties.html#returning

If you don't wish to do this, I think you would need to create a guest
account on Alioth (just sign up via the site) to use. Either way, you
can then apply to join DPMT here:

https://alioth.debian.org/projects/python-modules

I've added you to Uploaders in the meanwhile; I still want to do some
final checks on the package, but everything looks good so far, so I
will most likely be uploading the new version later today (although it
will still need to go through binary-NEW processing because of the new
python3-dialog package).
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