On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 4:23 PM, Ghislain Vaillant <ghisv...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, 2017-03-31 at 15:19 -0400, Sandro Tosi wrote: >> On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 9:04 AM, Sandro Tosi <mo...@debian.org> wrote: >> > > I have answered your RFPs, so Debian now should have all the necessary >> > > agate >> > > dependencies available in experimental. >> > >> > thanks! >> >> >> actually i take the thanks back: i just noticed you uploaded *only* >> the py3k version of the agate modules: how's that supposed to help >> csvkit, which provides py2 and py3k modules? > > 1. https://lintian.debian.org/tags/new-package-should-not-package-pytho > n2-module.html
this is non-sense, it's doing only harm and no good to Debian or its users > > 2. apt-cache rdepends python-csvkit > > python-csvkit > Reverse Depends: > > 3. The documentation of csvkit [1] only references the command-line > tools. Besides, quoting the upstream README [2]: > > - "csvkit is **a suite of command-line tools** for converting to and > working with CSV." > > - "If you need to do more complex data analysis than csvkit can handle, > use agate." > > Therefore, based on these comments above, dropping the Python 2 > packages for the Buster cycle should not be that big of a deal. no, i do not plan to drop python 2 support for csvkit (not any other packages I maintain) until a developers decision is made. > > [1] http://csvkit.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html > [2] https://github.com/wireservice/csvkit/blob/master/README.rst > > Ghis -- Sandro "morph" Tosi My website: http://sandrotosi.me/ Me at Debian: http://wiki.debian.org/SandroTosi G+: https://plus.google.com/u/0/+SandroTosi
