On Fri, 15 May 2020 11:38:34 +0200 Andreas Henriksson <andr...@fatal.se> wrote: > Control: tags -1 + wontfix > > Hello all, > > On Thu, Apr 30, 2020 at 08:41:47AM +0200, Christoph Reiter wrote: > > Fedora has ported it to Python 3: > > https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/gnome-doc-utils/blob/master/f/gnome-doc-utils-0.20.10-python3.patch > > Thanks for providing this information..... You don't happen to know the > underlying reason for why they did this?
No idea. If I'd have to guess I'd say to smooth the transition of removing both gnome-doc-utils and py2. This is what I found :D https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1737996#c7 > Unrelated to python(3), gnome-doc-utils is deprecated after all. > > We currently have no reverse dependencies in testing on the Debian side, > thus I think we're in a good position to remove it rather than fix any > outstanding bugs in it (and autoremoval should kick in soon as the > targeted date was apparently yesterday). I'm thus tagging this wontfix > for the potential benefit of anyone trying to get the overview of > remaining python3 porting work. Sounds good! It turned out that the fedora port is incomplete as well and I had to patch more stuff for my use case: https://github.com/msys2/MSYS2-packages/blob/master/gnome-doc-utils/more-python3-fixes.patch
