Finding it very difficult to move pyexiv2 code from Python 2 to Python 3

[Cameron Simpson]

On 21Aug2020 04:00, Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> wrote:
>Fortunately, the *next* release of Ubuntu fixes this:
>
>https://packages.ubuntu.com/groovy/mercurial
>
>It depends on Python 3.8 instead. No idea why the 20.04 release insists 
>on 2.7.

I would guess they didn't have the resources to regression test the 
shift in time for 20.04. Moving to Python 3, _particularly_ with 
something like Mercurial which has a bunch of internal things which are 
in fact byte strings, risks subtle breakage.

Cheers,
Cameron Simpson <cs at cskk.id.au>