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Re: python3-<module> packages must not depend on python<module> packages and vice versa



On Aug 10, 2014, at 06:16 PM, Matthias Klose wrote:

>Seen this in pycurl (#757694), but if this is something which occurs more
>often, then I think we should prepare for a policy update and/or a lintian
>warning.
>
>Maybe it is not yet possible to avoid one stack entirely, but we should not
>create artificial dependencies.

Agreed!  If there are bits and pieces useful to both the Python 2 and 3
versions, please consider adding a -common or functionally similar binary
package to hold them.  I guess in some cases it wouldn't be completely
horrible to just duplicate the files in both the python- and python3-
packages, but I generally don't like to do that unless it's really less size
and effort to do so (e.g. one or two files).

-Barry


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