Bug#760635: systemd: Please add back python2 bindings

[Martin Pitt]

Hey Daniel, Michael,

Michael Biebl [2014-09-06 13:29 +0200]:
> Martin did drop the python-systemd packages since there weren't any
> reverse dependencies. I don't see fail2ban depend/recommend/suggest
> python-systemd? Could you elaborate?

I deliberately dropped the py2 ones to avoid encouraging people to
grow new dependencies on it. The Python maintainers want to phase out
Python 2 and encourage porting to Python 3.

I see fail2ban grew a python-systemd Suggests: in experimental.
However, http://www.fail2ban.org/wiki/index.php/Features says that
fail2ban supports Python 3 in 0.9.x. In the spirit of the Py 3
transition, would it be possible for fail2ban to use py3?

> We already do a second build for the udeb package. Adding a third build
> is not something I'm too keen about since the build times are already
> quite long. Doing a full build for just the python bindings seems a bit
> wasteful.

That's also an important issue, but my main concern is proliferating
new python2 libraries/dependencies.

Martin
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Martin Pitt                        | http://www.piware.de
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