Bug#1038978: deja-dup: Relies on PyDrive or PyDrive2 but neither of these packages available in Debian 12

[Chris Chapman]

Package: deja-dup
Version: 44.0-2
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

*** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate ***

* What led up to the situation?

Installed Deja-Dup on a new installation of Debian 12.
After setting up backup location of Google Drive attempted to run first backup.
Received error stating that requires googleapi and PyDrive.
Able to install python3-googleapi from Debian 12 repository.
However, PyDrive is depreciated and not available in Debian 12 or any other version of debian.
python3-pydrive2 is availabe currently in sid (unstable) but not debian 12.
Without python-pydrive2 installed on system backup to google drive cannot function on debian 12, but this package is not available in debian 12.

* What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
ineffective)?

Backup to google drive not possible due to dependency not available in Debian 12.

* What was the outcome of this action?

Backup failed.

* What outcome did you expect instead?

Backup to be successful.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 12.0
APT prefers stable-security
APT policy: (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 6.1.0-9-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages deja-dup depends on:
ii dconf-gsettings-backend [gsettings-backend] 0.40.0-4
ii duplicity 0.8.22-1+b3
ii libadwaita-1-0 1.2.2-1
ii libc6 2.36-9
ii libglib2.0-0 2.74.6-2
ii libgpg-error0 1.46-1
ii libgtk-4-1 4.8.3+ds-2
ii libjson-glib-1.0-0 1.6.6-1
ii libpackagekit-glib2-18 1.2.6-5
ii libpango-1.0-0 1.50.12+ds-1
ii libsecret-1-0 0.20.5-3
ii libsoup-3.0-0 3.2.2-2

Versions of packages deja-dup recommends:
ii gvfs-backends 1.50.3-1
ii packagekit 1.2.6-5
ii policykit-1 122-3

Versions of packages deja-dup suggests:
ii python3-pydrive2 1.15.0-2

-- no debconf information

[jygibso...@gmail.com]

I tried and verified. I was able to manually backport the package from

http://deb.debian.org/debian/pool/main/p/pydrive2/pydrive2_1.15.0-3.dsc

It built and installed fine against bookworm. I was able to create a Google
drive backup.

I cannot do it but it could be put in bookworm-backports and made available.