Status: Python3 only on the ubuntu-desktop images

[Matthias Klose]

On 04/07/2015 01:28 AM, Matthias Klose wrote:
> Before leaving for PyCon and with 15.04 beta2 released, I had a look at removing
> Python2 from the desktop images. We are not there yet, but it looks promising
> and realistic to achieve for 15.10.  Bugs can be seen at
> 
>   https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bugs?field.tag=python3

sorry, hit Send before finishing ...

 - some more applications are still using Python2. software-center,
   deja-dup, duplicity.

 - upstream is wary to support bindings for both 2.7 and 3.4,
   looking for alternative solutions

 - ibus and libpeas have packages both depending on 2.7 and 3.4.
   these probably should be split.

 - the rest are "mostly" scripts.

Please reply to particular issues directly in the bug reports.

Matthias


ubuntu-sso-client
  enough of Twisted ported to Python3?
  1037768, 1035104

software-center
  823254
  all dependencies are available

update-notifier
  partly ported?
  1440683

sessioninstaller
  recommended by file-roller and software-center
  porting to python3 doesn't look too bad
  1440368

landscape-client (landscape-client-ui-install)
  one script ... 1440366

apt-xapian-index
  recommended by software-center
  needs python3-xapian, which will get usable with xapian-bindings 1.4 (not yet
released).

deja-dup (seeded as a recommends)
  1440370  needs porting

duplicity (dep of deja-dup)
  1440372  partially ported

zeitgeist
  dependency of activity-log-manager (seeded as a recommends)
  1440373
  supported upstream, build a python3-zeitgeist package and let zeitgeist depend
on it

oneconf (dependency of software-center)
  oneconf-common should use python3 by default
  1440375

totem-plugins
  recommends of totem (seeded)
  1440377, upstream supported

tdb
  nautilus-share (seeded as recommends)
  1440379, seems supported upstream

samba (needed by gvfs-backends) -> removal of system-config-printer
  python3-samba needed
  1440381

talloc (needed by samba-libs)
  python3-talloc needed
  1440384

pidgin/libpurple-bin
  1440390
  seems to be supported upstream

ubuntu-system-service
  1440388

oneconf
  oneconf-common should use Python3 by default
  1440375

zeitgeist
  1440373
  build a python3-zeitgeist package and let zeitgeist depend on it

ibus:
  1440391
  gir1.2-ibus-1.0 depends on both libpython2.7 and libpython3.4.

  strange dependency on python-notify, while it otherwise only
  has dependencies on python3. is a python3-notify package needed?
  Fixed. upstream dropped pynotify in 2008, not fixed in the
  packaging. Now even demoted.

libpeas
  1440504
  runtime library package depends on both libpython2.7 and libpython3.4.

compiz/compiz-gnome
  dependency on python
  /usr/share/session-migration scripts
  1440548

gconf/gconf2
  1440549
  two python scripts

plainbox-provider-checkbox
  1440553
  python scripts

rastertosag-gdi
  1440554
  python script

unity
  1440560
  /usr/share/session-migration scripts

webapps-applications
  1440561
  /usr/share/session-migration scripts

xdiagnose
  1440564
  some scripts not converted