reopen 978739
thanks

On 12/31/20 4:13 PM, Daniele Tricoli wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 31, 2020 at 05:55:17AM +0100, Bas Couwenberg wrote:
>> Package: chardet
>> Version: 4.0.0-1
>> Severity: serious
>> Justification: makes the package in question unusable or mostly so
>> Control: affects -1 src:requests src:qgis
>>
>> Dear Maintainer,
>>
>> Upgrading python3-chardet causes the removal of many packages:
>>
>>  The following packages will be REMOVED:
>>    chrome-gnome-shell gnome-music pycsw pycsw-wsgi python3-astropy-helpers 
>> python3-boto3 python3-botocore python3-cupshelpers python3-gitlab 
>> python3-numpydoc python3-owslib python3-plotly python3-pycsw python3-pywps 
>> python3-qgis
>>    python3-reportbug python3-requests python3-requests-oauthlib 
>> python3-s3transfer python3-sphinx python3-sphinx-astropy 
>> python3-sphinx-automodapi python3-sphinx-gallery pywps qgis 
>> qgis-plugin-grass reportbug system-config-printer
>>    system-config-printer-common system-config-printer-udev 
>> torbrowser-launcher
>>  The following packages will be upgraded:
>>    python3-chardet
>>  1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 31 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
>>
>> python3-requests does not support version 3.1.0 or higher:
>>
>>   python3-chardet (<< 3.1.0)
>>
>> With the freeze coming in a few months it may be wise to revert back to 
>> 3.0.x for bullseye.
>>
>> Otherwise the python3-chardet rdeps need to fixed before that time.
> 
> As soon as noticed the chardet upload I uploaded requests 2.25.1+dfsg-1 which
> fix the problem, but there was a time window during the propagation of the new
> version when the problem was reproducible.

Thanks for quickly acting on this, but the problem is not limited to
python3-requests. Several other reverse dependencies need to be updated
for the new chardet as well. The autopkgtest failures include some of them:

 https://qa.debian.org/excuses.php?package=chardet

> Happy new year!

The same to you!

Kind Regards,

Bas

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