On Jul 9, 2015 5:25 AM, "Robert Collins" <robertc@robertcollins.net> wrote:
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> On 3 July 2015 at 08:29, Scott Kitterman <debian@kitterman.com> wrote:
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> > I think dropping these duplicates is the only thing that makes sense. For
> > reference, I dropped python3-ipaddr once python3.2 was gone (because 3.3 has
> > ipaddress, which does the same thing).
>
> Where its a dupe sure.
>
> unittest2, traceback2, linecache2, mock are not duplicates of the
> functionality in 3.4 - they are backports of things in 3.5 (to all
> pythons). And they will shortly have more than 3.5 itself has in it,
> as they are rolling backports: what lands in 3.6 will go into them. So
> I don't think removing them makes sense.
>
> I don't have a view on other packages.
>
> -Rob
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Further, should API compatibility also be considered? If I remember correctly ipaddress in the stdlib and ipaddr have similar but not exactly identical APIs