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Re: Bug#943666: python3: Update Python Policy for removal of the Python 2 stack



Brian May <bam@debian.org> writes:

> Stéphane Blondon <stephane.blondon@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Perhaps there is a doubt how to read it?
>> - do not (remove python-foo-doc or rename it to python3-foo-doc)
>> - (do not remove python-foo-doc) or (rename it to python3-foo-doc)
>>
>> Would it be better if we remove the indentation and use this sentence(?):
>> if documentation is in python-foo-doc, do not move it
>
> Myself, I read it as the first option.
>
> I would personally use:
>
> - Do not remove python-foo-doc and do not rename it to python3-foo-doc.
>
> Or maybe even expand as two bullet points:
>
> - Do not remove python-foo-doc.
> - Do not rename it to python3-foo-doc.
>
> I think this makes it very explicit what was intended.

+1.  I also read it as (do (not (remove python-foo-doc) or (not (rename
to python3-foo-doc)))).  In natural language that "or" should be a
"nor", but breaking it into two negated bullet points may be clearer to
those whose first language doesn't possess a negative list operator.

Cheers,
Nicholas

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