title: Python 3

Now that the missing libraries are in Jessie (tails#5875 (closed), tails#6175 (closed)), we need to migrate our custom programs to Python3.

• Main Git repository
  • config/chroot_local-includes/etc/whisperback/config.py
  • config/chroot_local-includes/usr/local/bin/lc.py
  • config/chroot_local-includes/usr/local/bin/shutdown_helper_applet
  • config/chroot_local-includes/usr/local/bin/tails-about
  • config/chroot_local-includes/usr/local/lib/tails-autotest-remote-shell
  • config/chroot_local-includes/usr/local/lib/boot-profile
  • config/chroot_local-includes/usr/local/sbin/tails-additional-software
• Tails Greeter
• Tails Installer
• WhisperBack

$ git grep "^ *import " config/
$ git grep "^ *from [^ -]* import " config/

Main Git repository

Modules not included in standard library follow:

config/chroot_local-includes/etc/whisperback/config.py

Was migrated to Python3 as part of WhisperBack (see below).

config/chroot_local-includes/usr/local/bin/lc.py

Was migrated to Python3 as part of https://labs.riseup.net/code/projects/tails/repository/revisions/2b2b6c76d10db733905fad978340150da3c920a4 (tails#10088 (closed))

config/chroot_local-includes/usr/local/bin/shutdown_helper_applet

We will not use this applet in Tails/Jessie, so there is nothing to do.

• gtk: deprecated, replaced by python3-gi and gir1.2-gtk-3.0
• gnomeapplet: deprecated, replaced by python3-gi and gir1.2-panelapplet-4.0

config/chroot_local-includes/usr/local/bin/tails-about

Was migrated to Python3 in Tails 2.6: tails#10082 (closed)

• gtk: deprecated, replaced by python3-gi and gir1.2-gtk-3.0

config/chroot_local-includes/usr/local/lib/tails-autotest-remote-shell

Ported to Python3.

config/chroot_local-includes/usr/local/lib/boot-profile

Was migrated to Python3 in Tails 2.6: tails#10083 (closed)

• pyinotify: OK, python3-pyinotify

config/chroot_local-includes/usr/local/sbin/tails-additional-software

Was migrated to Python3 as part of tails#15198 (closed) in https://labs.riseup.net/code/projects/tails/repository/revisions/2abe4abbf69f5c6cde80de6bcc3134734860ca13: tails#15067 (closed)

• posix1e: OK, python3-pylibacl

Tails Greeter

Was migrated to Python3 in Tails 3.0: tails#5701 (closed)

• pycountry: OK, python3-pycountry
• icu: OK, python3-icu

Tails Installer

Should be migrated to Python3: tails#10085 (closed)

XXX: this list of dependencies is outdated.

• configobj: OK, python3-configobj
• StringIO: the StringIO module is included in the stdlib, and available in python3 as io.StringIO or io.BytesIO
• PyQt4: OK, python3-pyqt4
• dbus: OK, python3-dbus
• parted: OK, python3-parted
• urlparse: renamed urllib.urlparse

WhisperBack

Ported to Python3.