python-pylibacl-doc package exists but not python-pylibacl

[Patola]

The documentation for python-pylibacl exists but not the package itself.
This library (in its python2 version) is required by software like sc-controller from kozec.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04
Package: python-pylibacl-doc (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.0.0-20.21~18.04.1+1valve1+mfutex2-mfutex 5.0.8
Uname: Linux 5.0.0-20-mfutex x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: zfs zunicode zavl icp zcommon znvpair nvidia_modeset nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu27
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: skip
CurrentDesktop: ICEWM
Date: Fri May 1 20:08:10 2020
InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-01-08 (844 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 17.10 "Artful Aardvark" - Release amd64 (20171018)
SourcePackage: python-pylibacl
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to focal on 2020-05-01 (0 days ago)
modified.conffile..etc.default.apport:
 # set this to 0 to disable apport, or to 1 to enable it
 # you can temporarily override this with
 # sudo service apport start force_start=1
 enabled=s
mtime.conffile..etc.default.apport: 2018-12-08T09:39:42.468905

[Iustin Pop (iustin)]

Python 2 is going away in Debian, so the plain python-pylibacl package went away a while back. I don't know what's the story for Ubuntu, but I suspect very much the same.

Either stay on old distro, or help migrate the upstream (kozec) to Python 3.

Alternatively, install an older version from pypi?

[Mattia Rizzolo (mapreri)]

according to the python policy, the naming for python doc package is "python-$name-doc", but with python2 going away the module for python3 is in the package "python3-$name".

As such, you can find the python module you are looking for in the python3-pylibacl package.

This is considered a support question, please refer to user support next time.

[Patola (patola)]

No, this is not a support question. Did you even read the description? The python2 version is needed by sc-controller. This is not a question about nomenclature, it's about a missing requisite package for an important application.

[Matthias Klose (doko)]

Python2 is dead. If you need it, run a release which still has it, like Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.

[Patola (patola)]

Ah. Dont worry with me. Due to bigoted attitudes like these, I already migrated away to Arch from Ubuntu. In Arch, I can still fully use sc-controller with pylibacl (which is required for newer games that don't run on 18.04 anymore like Planetary Annihilation Titans) or even choose later versions. I still dual-boot with Ubuntu 20.04 because I support lots of novice users on group chats in Telegram, but your advice tells me that maybe I should have dropped that too.