Hi Ana,
On Sun, Sep 22, 2019 at 11:11:47PM +0200, Ana Guerrero Lopez wrote:
> > thanks a lot for thorough testing the package!
> >
> > The situation is as follows: Upstream is dead so we probably become
> > upstream in Debian. I has done my best to port it to Python3 with the
> > help of Debian Python team. I personally can not do more. I can just
> > hope that someone who is using the program will try to fix it. If you
> > feel able to do this it would be great. If you know somebody who could
> > do it great as well. I'd be really happy if we could keep the package
> > inside Debian and if someone could fix it.
>
> I used to maintain this package, so I'm well aware of the problems, check
> the changelog ;)
I'm aware of this. ;-)
> The package should be removed from the archive, the base code is very poor to
> start with, and the patching for python3 isn't going to fix this, just add
> more problems...
OK, sorry for causing problems - and good to know that some qualified
user of unstable is spotting these in an early stage to (hopefully) not harm
the majority of users.
> Your current python3 porting is not helping here since many people will start
> the application, will be prompted for a new user, will create it and erase
> all their data. So please, revert your changes and if that means the package
> will be removed from the archive, let it be. At least people will be able to
> continue using it while they move to something else (or not), but won't lose
> their data as it'll happen now.
I've now pushed a change to salsa[1] where I deactivated the whole 2to3
port and replaced the warning about the port by some other warning that
a port will be needed or the package will vanish. Hopefully this might
attract some coders. BTW, I fully agree with you that the code quality
might not be a good start.
I tried to start the build here but I get:
$ cycle
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/cycle", line 213, in <module>
app = MyApp(0)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/wx-3.0-gtk3/wx/_core.py", line 8628,
in __init__
self._BootstrapApp()
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/wx-3.0-gtk3/wx/_core.py", line 8196,
in _BootstrapApp
return _core_.PyApp__BootstrapApp(*args, **kwargs)
File "/usr/bin/cycle", line 193, in OnInit
ret=first_login()
File "/usr/share/cycle/dialogs.py", line 304, in first_login
users = get_users()
File "/usr/share/cycle/dialogs.py", line 192, in get_users
users.append((cPickle.loads(tmp[:n]), f))
ValueError: unsupported pickle protocol: 3
So I reverted to the Python2 version 0.3.1-14 (from testing) but I get
absolutely the same error. I wonder whether my package is fine in terms
of "works as broken as before" or whether I messed up something else.
> Thanks for caring.
Thanks to you. I'd be happy if you could check master[1] and confirm
that it is OK. I can even give you commit permissions so you can change
anything you feel sensible and do the team upload yourself.
See you (hopefully some time - missed you at last DebConfs)
Andreas.
[1] https://salsa.debian.org/med-team/cycle
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