[py3porters-devel] [Needs Port] dput-ng

Thomas Goirand zigo at debian.org
Tue Aug 9 13:58:14 UTC 2016


On 05/07/2015 12:08 AM, Daniele Tricoli wrote:
> Hello porters,
> 
> On Thursday 16 April 2015 18:06:13 Paul Tagliamonte wrote:
>> I'd love to swap dput(1) to use Python 3 out of the box :)
> 
> WIP is here: https://github.com/eriol/dput-ng/tree/py3-port 
> 
> I have already tested and fixed the only Python 3 incompatibility[¹]
> but I need a clarification: you are talking about swap dput to use
> Python 3, this mean can I simply ship Python 3 versions of dcut,
> dirt and dput inside package dput-ng? I'm asking because right now
> I build python-dput both for Python 2 and Python 3.
> At first I tought we need to ship both Python 2 and Python 3 versions,
> but reading again the above sentence made me think I'm probably
> misunderstanding.
> 
> So, to recap, I see the following scenarios:
> 1) build only Python 3 version;
> 2) build both Python 2 and Python 3 (including scripts):
>    In this case, should I have to put dcut3, dirt3, dput3
>    inside dput-ng package and make it depends on both
>    Python 2 and Python 3?
> 3) build python-dput and python3-dput packages but ship only
>    Python 3 version of dcut, dirt and dput inside dput-ng
>    package.
> 
> I'm for scenario 1: it seems the right thing to do. I really don't
> like scripts ending with '3', but if we have to ship both versions
> (Python 2 and Python 3) I don't see any other possible option
> compared to scenario 2.
> Scenario 3 seems not useful since python-dput dependants is only
> dput-ng.
> 
> What do you think/suggest?
> 
> Many thanks!
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> [¹] https://github.com/eriol/dput-ng/commit/395bc429bc6f2acb0cb9581a8f3927e97c4d0db4

Daniel,

Here's a patch to apply on top of your py3-port branch.
Do we have more to fix?

I hope this helps,
Cheers,

Thomas Goirand (zigo)

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