Bug#881544: Epydoc will be removed

2019-07-31 Thread Simon McVittie
On Wed, 31 Jul 2019 at 21:51:38 -0500, Kenneth Pronovici wrote: > This is still one of 20+ packages in the archive that depend on > Epydoc. For those receiving this message out of context with only a bug number (for example via a Python team subscription on tracker.debian.org like I did), the affe

Bug#881544: Epydoc will be removed

2019-07-31 Thread Kenneth Pronovici
Hi, This is still one of 20+ packages in the archive that depend on Epydoc. I have filed a bug with ftp.debian.org to have epydoc removed from unstable, and that can't proceed while this package still uses epydoc as a build dependency. As a result, I have increased the severity of this bug to se

Bug#881544: Epydoc will be removed after buster

2019-06-11 Thread Kenneth Pronovici
I intend to have the eypdoc package removed from unstable a few weeks after buster is released. Besides its lack of support for Python 3, epydoc has been completely unsupported upstream for close to a decade. It really should have been removed from the archive years ago. If you are in the process