On September 2, 2019 4:00:53 AM UTC, Sandro Tosi <morph@debian.org> wrote:
I would just stop building these. And if the reverse dependencies
have a
py2removal bug itself, then comment in these issues that the
suggested/recommended package gets removed. If they don't have a
py2removal
bug, please file the bugs for these packages.
i dont believe this is a sensible approach; for example i maintain
python-mpmath, that would be rendered uninstallable the moment
python-gmp2 is removed. Now, python-mpmath has 3 external
reverse-dependencies (just to name a couple, sagemath and simpy) that
would be then uninstallable, and so on and so forth for all their
rdeps.
Martin, i think for now the only option is to keep the py2 packages
around until we're ready to drop them (ie they have 0 rdeps).
I just checked on packages.d.o and according to it, python-gmp2 is a Suggests. Suggests aren't installed with packages. Unless I'm missing something, python-mpmath wouldn't become uninstallable.
IIRC, policy doesn't even require Suggests packages to exist.
I agree about keeping packages as long as they have reverse Recommends, but I think Suggests is going too far (although AIUI, missing Recommends don't make the package uninstallable either).
Scott K