Re: Policy for "Specifying Supported Versions" for Python3

[Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>]

* Luca Falavigna <dktrkranz@debian.org>, 2010-06-18, 15:12:
> > XS-Python-Version: >= 2.x
> > XS-Python3-Version: >= 3.x
> >
> > This avoids any risk of existing packages inadvertently expressing 
> > support for a Python3 version, but adds more fields to debian/control 
> > (this would also imply, I think, XB-Python3-Version).  This ends up 
> > making Packages.gz (and .bz2) larger and making updates slower for 
> > everyone.
>
> I'd prefer this method over the above, it's clear and there's less risk 
> to inadvertitely support python3 without proper source changes.

Same here.

> Size is not that important: adding 30 bytes to 3,000 packages is less 
> than 100Kb unzipped in total size, not a big deal after all.

Right. We currently have:

$ cat /var/lib/apt/lists/*_debian_dists_sid_*_Sources | grep-dctrl -F Python-Version -s Python-Version '' | wc -lc
     963   21141

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Jakub Wilk

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