If you're interested in this effort, please email me. This is a really good new
contributor task, so if anyone's asked you how they could get involved with
Debian, you should send them to us!Yes, it's hilarious that version of Mailmain needs to be ported to Python 3.
For example: I'm looking at ./main/f/flask-wtf/flask-wtf_0.10.2-1.json and I'm not even sure what I'm looking at. The contents of that file are:
{"has_python3_module": false, "canidate": true, "trove_python3": true, "has_python2_module": true}
On my machine `apt-cache search flask-wtf` finds a package called `python-flaskext-wtf`. Digging deeper with `apt-cache showpkg` I find the homepage http://packages.python.org/Flask-WTF/, which in turn gets me to the code https://github.com/lepture/flask-wtf. I haven't updated the code to Python 3, but let's assume for a second that I have: now what? How do I tie this all together? Do I just send you a patch for this code? Is this even the right code?
If you point me in the right direction I'll be happy to write up a tutorial to help other folks contribute.
And as a side note: I really like Hy.
has_python2_module: is a python2 package
has_python3_module: is a python3 package
trove_python3: Is is declared as python3 ready in Pypi ?
canidate: Python 3 module already there and Python 3 compatible on Pypi
I published it as a csv to better understand the situation: https://github.com/mdamien/mdamien.github.io/blob/master/sta...
I see for example, openpyxl_1.7.0 is listed as needing attention. Looking around it seems that openpyxl supports python3 now, so I guess whatever has that dependency needs to be checked?
Binary packages are what's found by apt-cache search and installed by apt-get install.
You can install a Debian source package using:
apt-get source flask-wtf
Information on the source package is available here:
Sorry, I didn't document this since i'm rushing stuff out as soon as I get it together -- I was looking at the Trove classifiers, and setting candidate to true iff it says it's Python 3 compatable but no Python 3 package :)
Is there a list of projects that need porting? Would be good to see what sort of size they were.
Major things that would be useful to port for Debian's sake, because they're system utilities: supervisor, Fabric, carbon
Major things that would be useful to port because Python projects depend on them: Twisted, thrift, protobuf
Don't bother with these because replacements already exist: MySQL-python, oauth2