etckeeper in Xenial wants python2.x

[Haw Loeung]

Hi,

Xenial now ships without python2.7 by default. Unfortunately, it seems etckeeper still wants to pull in python2.7. Should it be updated to python3?

Thanks,

Haw

[Matthias Klose (doko)]

too late for xenial, but it should be done for bionic

[Christian Ehrhardt  (paelzer)]

@Josh you did the last merge - would you try to tackle this one as well?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package etckeeper - 1.18.7-1ubuntu1

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etckeeper (1.18.7-1ubuntu1) cosmic; urgency=low

  * Merge from Debian unstable LP: #1556563. Remaining changes:
    - Use C.UTF-8 for LANG for consistent unicode support

etckeeper (1.18.7-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * New upstream release
  * port to Python3, no change (Closes: #883145)
  * tweak lintian override
  * bump to dh 10 compat
  * add debian watch file
  * add missing git dependency to fix test during build
  * add git buildpackage config
  * use https URLs everywhere in metadata
  * remove byte-compiled Python file as per policy
  * remove duplicate Section in debian/control

etckeeper (1.18.7) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Added some unit tests.
    Thanks, Henrik Riomar.
  * etckeeper will work on systems that do not have perl installed.
    (perl is still used when available as it's faster)
    Thanks, William Johansson and radhus.
  * Prevent LC_ALL overriding the LC_COLLATE used to sort metadata.

etckeeper (1.18.6) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Only show errors (no progress indicators) when pushing Git/Mercurial repos
    to avoid unncessary cron mails.
    Thanks, Nils Steinger.
  * Fix regex in 20-warn-problem-files.
  * Added support for apk (alpine linux)
    Thanks, Henrik Riomar.

 -- Dimitri John Ledkov <email address hidden> Sat, 26 May 2018 00:02:27 +0100

[Joe Johnson (say2joe)]

Thank you for fixing the recently resolved issues! Been looking forward to trying out this package while awaiting fixes.

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

Looks like it got fixed during Cosmic devel.