Control: severity -1 normal Control: retitle -1 RM: python-gear -- RoM; rc-buggy Control: reassign -1 ftp.debian.org Control: affects -1 + src:python-gear
On Thu, Sep 12, 2024 at 09:29:04AM +0200, Antoine Musso wrote: > Le 12/09/2024 à 07:29, Helmut Grohne a écrit : > > Source: python-gear > > Severity: important > > User: helm...@debian.org > > Usertags: sidremove > > > > Dear maintainer, > > > > I suggest removing python-gear from Debian for the following reasons: > > * It accumulated one RC-bug: > > + #1002430: python-gear: FTBFS: ssl.SSLError: [SSL: > > NO_CIPHERS_AVAILABLE] no ciphers available (_ssl.c:997) > > Last modified: 1 year, 3 months > > CC #1002430 which has the build failure > > > python-gear packages upstream version 0.5.8 which was released in 2015. > > I packaged it (along python-voluptuous) because our sysadmins at the time > required to deploy using Debian packages. Shortly after we changed to our > model to vendor the dependencies and I have never looked back at the Debian > package. > > #1002430 shows an issue with the SSL configuration and after a quick look at > the git log in https://review.opendev.org/opendev/gear , there are multiple > commits referring to SSL/TSL config. It is thus most probably fixed > upstream. > > I guess the default nowadays on Python 3.10 requires an explicit > configuration for which ciphers can be used, hence the FTBS. > > > * It is not part of bookworm or trixie and is not a key package. > > Given the package is not used and hasn't caught up with nearly ten years of > releases, I don't think there is any point in spending anymore time on it. > Please start the process to have it removed and close all the related bugs > that got filed (if any). Thanks for following up. I am converting this bug into a removal request accordingly. Helmut
