Prerequisite installation fails for debian-bullseye

[Jeff Godin]

The OpenSRF prerequisite installation for Debian 11 / Bullseye (using make -f src/extras/Makefile.install debian-bullseye) fails due to the attempt to install various Debian packages for Python 2 which do not exist for bullseye, including python-coverage.

Since OpenSRF Python support is being removed in bug 1827055, merging those changes would be one way to resolve this issue. The packages in question are no longer referenced in Makefile.install after those changes are merged.

[Jeff Godin (jgodin)]

(forgot to specify: affects OpenSRF 3.2.2 / rel_3_2 branch)

[Jason Stephenson (jstephenson)]

The fix for bug 1827055 has been committed to rel_3_2 for a potential 3.2.3 release. I'm going to set this bug to fix committed.

I'm nor sure that we want to make this bug a duplicate of the other or not.

[Jason Stephenson (jstephenson)]

I should have added that this bug also affects Ubuntu 20.04 Focal Fossa as well.

[Josh Stompro (u-launchpad-stompro-org)]

I just tested using opensrf master branch to install the Bullseye Debian 11.5 prerequisites and didn't run into any problems.
Josh

[Linda Jansova (skolkova-s)]

That sounds great :-)!

Are there any plans as to when exactly OpenSRF 3.2.3 is supposed to be released? I have tried to look up a roadmap but have only found this wiki page that might not have been updated in quite a while: https://wiki.evergreen-ils.org/doku.php?id=dev:opensrf_roadmap...

[Jeremiah Miller (jeremym-t)]

Yeah, just ran into this one.

Notes for Evergreen 3.8 and later all say they support Debian 11/Bullseye, with OpenSRF 3.2.0 or later as a prerequisite. Notes for OpenSRF indicate support for Bullseye appears with 3.2.2.

But it fails looking for those Python packages. With no 3.2.3 yet, the proper solution is... ?

Editing the Makefile.install to comment out those packages is seeming to work for me so far, but feels a little sloppy. And I don't quite trust the result yet.

[Jason Stephenson (jstephenson)]

Install from git. The fixes are in the rel_3_2 branch.

[Kathy Lussier (klussier)]

I know I don't have any skin in the game anymore, but I'm wondering if the upcoming conference and hackfest would be a good opportunity for somebody to work on getting the next OpenSRF release out. I think the community has been highly dependent on one person getting these releases out, but it would benefit everyone if there were more people who could help with this. With so many people in the same location at the same time, maybe this can be doable?

[Linda Jansova (skolkova-s)]

That would be great! The new OpenSRF release would definitely make our lives easier :-). Thank you for pointing out that the upcoming community get-together could be the right moment for putting the finishing touches on it!