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Re: Upstreams dropping Python 2 support



Dmitry Shachnev <mitya57@debian.org> writes:
> Sphinx 2.0 will also drop Python 2.7 support, so I am going to make the
> “sphinx” source package ship only python3-sphinx, and introduce the new
> source package (“sphinx-python2”?) which will ship only python-sphinx.
>
> Eventually I will also do a mass bug filing, but with the current 314
> python-sphinx reverse build-depends it is clear that I will have to ship
> sphinx-python2 for quite some time.

Is there a reason why one would use Python2-sphinx instead of the Python
3 version? How often in these 314 cases it is not just used as an
executable in d/rules?

Cheers

Ole


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