[core-updates-frozen] python2-google-api-client and sanity-check

[zimoun]

Hi,

Using the Mathieu’s script to pick one missing package from
core-updates-frozen, ’python2-google-api-client’ pops up.  Initially, I
thought to simply remove it because it is Python 2 and Python 2 is EOL.

Well, ’python2-google-api-client’ builds fine on master.  Therefore, let
try to build it locally and to be sure the removal is for good
reasons. :-)  Then, the build fails because the ’sanity-check’ phase:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
starting phase `sanity-check'                                                   
validating 'google-api-python-client' /gnu/store/…-python2-google-api-client-1.\
6.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages                                                 
...checking requirements: OK                                                    
...trying to load module apiclient: OK                                          
...trying to load module googleapiclient: OK                                    
...trying to load module googleapiclient/discovery_cache: ERROR:                
Traceback (most recent call last):                                              
  File "/gnu/store/…-sanity-check.py", line 69, in <module>                     
    importlib.import_module(name)                                               
  File "/gnu/store/…-python2-2.7.18/lib/python2.7/importlib/__init__.py", line \
37, in import_module                                                            
    __import__(name)                                                            
ImportError: Import by filename is not supported.                               
error: in phase 'sanity-check': uncaught exception:                             
%exception #<&invoke-error program: "python" arguments: ("/gnu/store/…-sanity-c\
heck.py" "/gnu/store/…-python2-google-api-client-1.6.7/lib/python2.7/site-packa\
ges") exit-status: 1 term-signal: #f stop-signal: #f>                           
phase `sanity-check' failed after 1.0 seconds
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

Because this ’sanity-check’ is new, IIUC, my question is: is it
expected?  And is it worth to fix such Python 2 packages or simply
remove them because ’sanity-check.py’ uses Python 3 only features?

Thanks in advance for any tips.

All the best,
simon