+1 maintenance report

[Andreas Hasenack]

Hi,

On Wed, Feb 7, 2024 at 10:42 AM Andreas Hasenack <andreas at canonical.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, Feb 6, 2024 at 9:47 PM Pushkar Kulkarni
> <pushkar.kulkarni at canonical.com> wrote:
> >
> > === freedombox/bootstrapform ===
> > The freedombox package depends on bootstrapform. Autopkgtests of the
> > former fail because the latter imports distutils. I did a Debian MR
> > [15] to replace distutils.StrictVersion with packaging.Version. But I
> > now see bootstrapform also failing, independent of this merge request,
> > with Python 3.12. Test pipelines on the MR are failing and this needs
> > more investigation.
> >
> > [15] https://salsa.debian.org/freedombox-team/python-django-bootstrap-form/-/merge_requests/4
> >
>
> I worked a little bit on this one the other day, because it was
> blocking my samba upload.
>
> I filed this bug initially:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/python-django-bootstrap-form/+bug/2050093
>
> Fixing the distutils import. But then, as did you, I saw the django
> failure with python 3.12:

I ended up uploading the distutils fix anyway. I didn't see the django
backtrace locally anymore, just in a ppa, and I'm unsure what's going
on. Since the distusils fix will be needed anyway, I uploaded.