Am 25.06.2014 00:51, schrieb Ben Longbons:
> On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 3:08 PM, Matthias Klose <d...@debian.org> wrote:
>> Control: reopen -1
>>
>> so this is a very generic claim ("breaks everything") without giving any
>> concrete package.
>
> It doesn't matter that it's not in a package.
>
> A debugger that can only be used to debug packages that are already
> part of the distro (and should, in theory, be bug-free) is completely
> useless to users. If this is your intent, please rename the package
> and executable to 'gdb-debian' with a note that it is only intended to
> be used to debug Debian packages.
this already exists. it is called gdb-minimal.
> The burden of proof that python3 is beneficial for the gdb package is
> on you, and bug 727003 didn't even have a "very generic claim".
>
>> Are you aware of other pretty printers not
>> working with python3?
> From what I've seen, pretty printers that *do* work with python3 are a
> very small minority.
so for now the majority of pretty printers in Debian, afaics all of them, are
able to use python3.
So as a step forward it would be good if you could name your software and
provide a pointer to the sources. Same for other software which only seem to be
mentioned in blog posts.
thanks, Matthias
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