Re: Removing some python3-* packages
On Thu, Jul 2, 2015 at 2:55 PM, Barry Warsaw <barry@debian.org> wrote:
> As part of the 3.5 test rebuild I noticed an incompatibility with
> python3-enum, which I reported upstream. The response was: there's actually
> no reason to have a Python 3 version of enum in any version >= Python 3.4.
> Since that's all we have now, maybe it makes more sense to just remove the
> python3-enum package from Debian.
>
> There may be similar packages which are fairly straight backports of Python 3
> packages. For those that are no longer necessary, what do you think about
> removing the python3-* version of the binary package?
>
> It seems like a bit of a regression given that we want Python 3 versions of
> our libraries, but in cases like this it probably makes sense.
>
> Thoughts?
> -Barry
Probably a silly question, but are other libraries like unittest2 also
being packaged for python3? Another library is mock. That was included
in the stdlib in 3.3. Is that being packaged for python3 on Debian as
well? I know it's nice to have the libraries available on both, but
mock for example stopped working on python3.4 since it's solely
maintained in the stdlib now. It doesn't make sense to package that
for both. (Keep in mind, I'm just an observer and I haven't checked if
those examples are already packaged for Py3)
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