Re: Mass-commit fix of lintian ancient-python-version-field
On Friday, May 11, 2018 09:33:20 AM Joseph Herlant wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Fri, May 11, 2018, 1:10 AM Ondrej Novy <novy@ondrej.org> wrote:
> > no problem, so just remove that file?
> >
> >
> > https://github.com/onovy/onovy-mass/commit/2c24adf1ecd8fc934328f69c75b2b2d
> > 9256ee3c9
> >
> > Are we sure it's completely safe to remove it globally?
>
> This file has been deprecated for about 10 years if I'm correct. It was
> used in old versions of dh_python and dh_pysupport.
> I will double-check the code of dh_python when I'm back at a computer but
> it was already asked to remove it when we migrated to dh_python2 in 2015,
> see: https://wiki.debian.org/Python/TransitionToDHPython2
If it's removal causes a problem, then we will have found a bug in the tool
that has the problem. pyversions will still use it if it's found, but it
doesn't require it.
Scott K
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