Re: Addition in lintian to warn about debian/pyversions file
On Monday, May 14, 2018 10:51:45 AM Joseph Herlant wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, May 14, 2018 at 3:14 AM, Thomas Goirand <zigo@debian.org> wrote:
> > As Ondrej wrote, there's only a few packages having this. How about we
> > just do a few NMUs as a team to fix that completely in the archive?
>
> I was actually thinking about integrating that removal to Ondřej's
> next mass-update (along with debian/pycompat) and if the packages are
> not released in the next 2 months or so, I was planning to do some
> team uploads on them (I saw some that have not been touched in a while
> and that would benefit from a big cleanup).
>
> On Mon, May 14, 2018 at 3:24 AM, Ondrej Novy <novy@ondrej.org> wrote:
> > I didn't write count and I don't have list :)
>
> The lintian tag would help getting the number easily! ;)
>
> One of my thoughts about introducing it on info level is that we
> should probably update https://wiki.debian.org/Python/Policy (I'll
> start a separate thread on that) before having it on error level as
> the page still shows examples with old/deprecated build systems.
>
> Another reason to put that in lintian is that we still have all the
> openstack python package to migrate to DPMT and those have a bunch of
> pycompat and pyversions file that a lintian note about it would help
> not forgetting that when we migrate those (I'll try to do some when I
> got more spare time).
I don't think deleting pycompat and pyversions is worth an upload. They are
obsolete and should be removed, but don't actually hurt anything.
Scott K
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