Bug 1738934

Summary:	pybliographer depends on Python 2
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Lumír Balhar <lbalhar>
Component:	pybliographer	Assignee:	Nobody's working on this, feel free to take it <nobody>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	31	CC:	zoltank
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Description Lumír Balhar 2019-08-08 11:58:45 UTC

Python 2.7 will reach end-of-life in January 2020, over 9 years after it was released. This falls within the Fedora 31 lifetime.
Packages that depend on Python 2 are being switched to Python 3 or removed from Fedora: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/F31_Mass_Python_2_Package_Removal#Information_on_Remaining_Packages
Python 2 will be retired in Fedora 32: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/RetirePython2

To help planning, we'd like to know the plans for pybliographer's future. Specifically:


- What is the reason for the Python2 dependency? (Is it software written in Python, or does it just provide Python bindings, or use Python in the build system or test runner?) 

- What are the upstream/community plans/timelines regarding Python 3?

- What is the guidance for porting to Python 3? (Assuming that there is someone who generally knows how to port to Python 3, but doesn't know anything about the particular package, what are the next steps to take?)


This bug is filed semi-automatically, and might not have all the context specific to pybliographer.
If you need anything from us, or something is unclear, please mention it here.

Thank you.

Comment 1 Ben Cotton 2019-08-13 16:53:37 UTC

This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 31 development cycle.
Changing version to '31'.

Comment 2 Ben Cotton 2019-08-13 17:29:42 UTC

This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 31 development cycle.
Changing version to 31.

Comment 3 Zoltan Kota 2019-08-15 10:16:00 UTC

Pybliographer is an application written is python requiring python-bibtex and gtk2 packages. Well, regrading the upstream development I can say it has NOT been maintained very actively in the last months/years. I don't think it will be ported to python3 in the near future.
Actually, I was already planning to orphan the package, because either I cannot see it's future and I don't use it actively anymore.

Comment 4 Zoltan Kota 2019-08-15 12:17:47 UTC

Started to orphan the package according to https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Orphaned_package_that_need_new_maintainers.

Comment 5 Lumír Balhar 2019-08-23 15:21:14 UTC

Orphaned. Thank you!

Comment 6 Miro Hrončok 2019-09-22 11:30:13 UTC

Automation has figured out the package is retired in Fedora 31.

If you like it to be unretired, please open a ticket at https://pagure.io/releng/new_issue?template=package_unretirement