[Python-apps-commits] r14459 - in packages/pychecker/trunk/debian (NEWS changelog control)

[pronovic at users.alioth.debian.org]

    Date: Sunday, November 12, 2017 @ 21:11:07
  Author: pronovic
Revision: 14459

Start dealing with the fact that Pychecker does not support Python 3

Added:
  packages/pychecker/trunk/debian/NEWS
Modified:
  packages/pychecker/trunk/debian/changelog
  packages/pychecker/trunk/debian/control

Added: packages/pychecker/trunk/debian/NEWS
===================================================================
--- packages/pychecker/trunk/debian/NEWS	                        (rev 0)
+++ packages/pychecker/trunk/debian/NEWS	2017-11-12 21:11:07 UTC (rev 14459)
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+pychecker (0.8.19-14) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+  Please consider moving away from Pychecker in favor of an alternative like
+  Pylint [1].  Pychecker is basically unmaintained upstream.  Also, it is only
+  supported for Python 2, so it will reach its end of life along with Python 2
+  sometime in 2020.  
+
+  Sandro and I will continue to maintain the Pychecker packages in Debian as
+  long as we can, acting as de facto upstream.  However, once Python 2 is
+  unsupported in Debian, we will remove the packages from the archive.
+  
+  Now is the time to convert.  Pylint does everything that Pychecker used to
+  do.  The main effort required is to create your new configuration file and
+  weed out warnings that you want to ignore.
+
+  [1] https://www.pylint.org/
+
+ -- Kenneth J. Pronovici <pronovic at debian.org>  Sun, 12 Nov 2017 20:57:36 +0000

Modified: packages/pychecker/trunk/debian/changelog
===================================================================
--- packages/pychecker/trunk/debian/changelog	2017-11-07 20:52:36 UTC (rev 14458)
+++ packages/pychecker/trunk/debian/changelog	2017-11-12 21:11:07 UTC (rev 14459)
@@ -1,3 +1,12 @@
+pychecker (0.8.19-14) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+  * Bump standards version to 4.1.1.0 (no packaging changes).
+  * Start dealing with the fact that Pychecker has no support for Python 3.
+    - Add NEWS.Debian to nudge users toward discontinuing use of Pychecker
+    - Add Lintian override for python-foo-but-no-python3-foo
+
+ -- Kenneth J. Pronovici <pronovic at debian.org>  Sun, 12 Nov 2017 20:57:36 +0000
+
 pychecker (0.8.19-13) unstable; urgency=medium
 
   * Ignore the Lintian testsuite-autopkgtest-missing warning.

Modified: packages/pychecker/trunk/debian/control
===================================================================
--- packages/pychecker/trunk/debian/control	2017-11-07 20:52:36 UTC (rev 14458)
+++ packages/pychecker/trunk/debian/control	2017-11-12 21:11:07 UTC (rev 14459)
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 Vcs-Svn: svn://anonscm.debian.org/python-apps/packages/pychecker/trunk/
 Vcs-Browser: https://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/python-apps/packages/pychecker/trunk/
 Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 9), python-all (>= 2.6.6-3~)
-Standards-Version: 4.0.0.0
+Standards-Version: 4.1.1.0
 X-Python-Version: >= 2.1
 
 Package: pychecker