Hello,

This package is set for auto removal from testing (#1147799) and I want to ask to remove it from unstable as well.

This is a CLI utility to interface with bigger framework called Phabricator which has been discontinued.
From https://github.com/phacility/phabricator  Effective June 1, 2021: Phabricator is no longer actively maintained.

I believe this package should not be fixed and it is not suitable for the next Debian release.

Please remove package: src:python-phabricator and it's binaries (version: 0.9.1-0.1) from testing and unstable.

Thanks very much for your support.

Hi Hector,

I'm afraid we need to fix bugwarrior first before FTP Masters will
allow this removal.

Greetings

Alexandre

tchet@quieter:~/tracker/key$ reverse-depends python3-phabricator -b
Reverse-Build-Depends
=====================
* bugwarrior

Hello Alexandre,

El jue, 24 sept 2026 a las 13:52, Alexandre Detiste
(<alexandre.detiste@gmail.com>) escribió:

Nice catch! I see Jochen has dropped from uploaders, hence replacing
him by package team email alias.

bugwarrior is also scheduled for autoremoval (October 12th) affected
by RC bugs similar issue as python-phabricator (pkg_resources removal)
- https://bugs.debian.org/1147331
- https://bugs.debian.org/1147553

I have tested a build of this patch against stable, since unstable
does not build, and it is building fine without python-phabricator.

I have pushed a MR for review you can find at
https://salsa.debian.org/tasktools-team/bugwarrior/-/merge_requests/2

Find debdiff to disable python-phabricator from package build:

diff -Nru bugwarrior-1.8.0/debian/changelog bugwarrior-1.8.0/debian/changelog
--- bugwarrior-1.8.0/debian/changelog 2025-11-30 14:31:58.000000000 +0100
+++ bugwarrior-1.8.0/debian/changelog 2026-09-24 18:58:13.000000000 +0200
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+bugwarrior (1.8.0-13.1) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
+
+  * Non-maintainer upload.
+  * Drop support for python-phabricator, since it is no longer actively
+    maintained upstream.
+
+ -- Héctor Orón Martínez <zumbi@debian.org>  Thu, 24 Sep 2026 18:58:13 +0200
+
 bugwarrior (1.8.0-13) unstable; urgency=medium

   * Add myself to uploader
diff -Nru bugwarrior-1.8.0/debian/control bugwarrior-1.8.0/debian/control
--- bugwarrior-1.8.0/debian/control 2025-11-30 14:29:06.000000000 +0100
+++ bugwarrior-1.8.0/debian/control 2026-09-24 18:58:04.000000000 +0200
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 Source: bugwarrior
 Maintainer: Debian Tasktools Team <team+tasktools@tracker.debian.org>
 Uploaders:
- Jochen Sprickerhof <jspricke@debian.org>,
  Alexandre Detiste <tchet@debian.org>,
 Section: utils
 Priority: optional
@@ -22,7 +21,6 @@
  python3-jira <!nocheck>,
  python3-lockfile <!nocheck>,
  python3-offtrac <!nocheck>,
- python3-phabricator <!nocheck>,
  python3-pytest <!nocheck>,
  python3-pytz <!nocheck>,
  python3-requests <!nocheck>,
@@ -49,7 +47,6 @@
  python3-googleapi,
  python3-jira,
  python3-keyring,
- python3-phabricator,
  python3-pypandoc,
 Built-Using:
  ${sphinxdoc:Built-Using},
diff -Nru bugwarrior-1.8.0/debian/patches/0013-disable-phabricator-inactive-upstream.patch
bugwarrior-1.8.0/debian/patches/0013-disable-phabricator-inactive-upstream.patch
--- bugwarrior-1.8.0/debian/patches/0013-disable-phabricator-inactive-upstream.patch
1970-01-01 01:00:00.000000000 +0100
+++ bugwarrior-1.8.0/debian/patches/0013-disable-phabricator-inactive-upstream.patch
2026-09-24 18:58:13.000000000 +0200
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+Index: bugwarrior/tests/test_phab.py
+===================================================================
+--- bugwarrior.orig/tests/test_phab.py
++++ bugwarrior/tests/test_phab.py
+@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
++import pytest
++
++pytest.skip(
++    "Disabled in Debian: test_phab requires Phabricator/API not available",
++    allow_module_level=True,
++)
++
+ import datetime
+ import unittest
+
+@@ -7,7 +14,6 @@ from bugwarrior.services.phab import Pha
+
+ from .base import ServiceTest, AbstractServiceTest
+
+-
+ class TestPhabricatorIssue(AbstractServiceTest, ServiceTest):
+     maxDiff = None
+     SERVICE_CONFIG = {
diff -Nru bugwarrior-1.8.0/debian/patches/series
bugwarrior-1.8.0/debian/patches/series
--- bugwarrior-1.8.0/debian/patches/series 2025-11-30 14:28:28.000000000 +0100
+++ bugwarrior-1.8.0/debian/patches/series 2026-09-24 18:58:13.000000000 +0200
@@ -10,3 +10,4 @@
 0011-Adopt-documentation-path-to-Debian.patch
 0012-support-for-python-3.12-1019.patch
 0012-Fix-CI-996.patch
+0013-disable-phabricator-inactive-upstream.patch

Thanks for your attention. Please let me know how can we proceed
forward with this.

PS./ Not sure why debdiff is not showing 0013 patch header.

Regards

Hi again

I do not have the time to upgrade this package properly right now,
so instead I just vendored the whole pkg_resources.py

I included your changes, thank you.

Alexandre

Le jeu. 24 sept. 2026 à 19:52, Hector Oron <zumbi@debian.org> a écrit :

Hello,

El jue, 24 sept 2026, 20:33, Alexandre Detiste <alexandre.detiste@gmail.com>
escribió:

I have moved team email alias to Bcc, to avoid further spamming.

Thanks for your new bugwarrior release, unless there are further issues,
ftp-master team should be good to remove this package from unstable at
their best convenience time, while we wait for release team autoremoval
removes it from testing.

Thanks all for your help with this.

Regards

Héctor Orón  -.. . -... .. .- -.   -.. . ...- . .-.. --- .--. . .-.

We believe that the bug you reported is now fixed; the following
package(s) have been removed from unstable:

python-phabricator |  0.9.1-0.1 | source
python3-phabricator |  0.9.1-0.1 | all

------------------- Reason -------------------
ROM; obsolete, inactive upstream
----------------------------------------------

Note that the package(s) have simply been removed from the tag
database and may (or may not) still be in the pool; this is not a bug.
The package(s) will be physically removed automatically when no suite
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