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



On Mon, Apr 30, 2018 at 12:25:05PM -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote:
> I like the idea of pushing towards python3, but my impression of the near-term 
> utility of this tag has changed.  Specifically, I see people being confused 
> about if python2.7 will be in buster (it will) and if it they should drop 
> python2.7 support from packages that still support it (they should not).

+1

> While I originally didn't think so, I've become convinced that there's no 
> wording short of something like "Ignore this tag for buster" that would fix 
> it.  At that point, I considered if the tag was useful no and concluded it is 
> not.  That's not what I thought originally.

+1

> People pay attention to lintian results and so the tags should be actionable.  
> The action most people seem to read into this tag is get rid of python2.7 
> support and we're one release too early for that.

+1

Thanks, Scott.


-- 
cheers,
	Holger

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