[kerkeslager]

Paul, I already emailed you but I'm responding here because I have a feeling your response will be useful to other people interested in helping: could you give some direction for people like me who know Python 2 and/or 3 and want to help, but don't know the first thing about the structure of Debian packages or how they are developed?

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}

What's all that mean?

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.

[Buetol]

To know what every key means, you can look at the script: https://github.com/paultag/debian-meta-archive/blob/master/s...

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...

[mjcohen]

Is "canidate" a misspelling of "candidate"?

[aidos]

All the very same questions I had. Also, in the list there are different versions of the same library. Presumably there are different parts of debian that rely on different versions of the same library - will they be updated to use newer versions?

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?

[caf]

flask-wtf is a source package. python-flaskext.wtf is a binary package - a single source package can build one or more binary packages.

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

(This just downloads and unpacks it into your current directory, so you don't have to be root - it's not actually modifying the installed package database).

Information on the source package is available here:

https://packages.debian.org/source/sid/flask-wtf

[paultag]

Thanks! (re: Hy :) )

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 :)