On 8/11/20 2:04 AM, Johannes 'josch' Schauer wrote: > Package: python > Version: 2.7.17-2 > Severity: grave > Justification: renders package unusable > > Hi, > > the python package is currently uninstallable in Debian unstable:
yes > Maybe this is intentional because of the imminent removal of python 2. > What is problematic here is, that python is also priority:standard. My > package mmdebstrap is a debootstrap replacement and in addition to being > able to install packages with priorities required and important, it can > also install all packages with priority standard. If a package from the > priority:standard set is not installable, then this also breaks the unit > tests and autopkgtest of mmdebstrap and thus, python not being > installable is currently blocking my mmdebstrap development. I see > several ways to resolve this: > > - fix the installability problem (there seems to be a version mismatch) no, you can't fix that in buster. > - remove the python package yes, that's the goal. However filing an RC bug report prevents migration of this package once it's migratable. > - adjust the priority to something less important than "standard" you should file a bug report for the override, not the package. > - add a rule to mmdebstrap to ignore a package named python I don't know mmdebstrap. But if you can work around that, please do. > Since the uninstallability has now been a thing for over a week, I'm > filing this bug to inquire about the best way forward. yes, and always RC severity in the first place...
