Bug#897213: lintian: Please remove dependency-on-python-version-marked-for-end-of-life until after Buster releases

[Chris Lamb <lamby@debian.org>]

[adding Matthias to CC as he filed #883581]
[adding Holger to CC as he filed #886259]

Hi Scott,

Thanks for opening this!

> I understand (and agree with) the intent of this check, but in practice, it's
> harming the release.  I don't think it is salvageable.

This tag has quite a history:

 - https://bugs.debian.org/870822 — Added as P:
 - https://bugs.debian.org/883581 — P: → W:
 - https://bugs.debian.org/886259 — W: → I:
 - https://bugs.debian.org/897213 — removal requested (this bug)

I suppose one question would be: why not downgrade it and/or make
it more explicit that you shouldn't blindly remove it? :)


> There has been a lot of discussion on debian-devel about the future of
> python2.7 in Buster.  The dependency-on-python-version-marked-for-end-of-life
> flag is confusing people into thinking they should drop python2.7 support from
> their packages because it isn't going to be in Buster.

(Just out of interest, do you have any concrete examples? The
thread itself talks a lot about packages being removed with scant
citations.)


Regards,

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