Hey Andreas and others On Fri, Sep 27, 2019 at 5:51 AM Andreas Tille <andr...@an3as.eu> wrote: > Regarding your change: > > Switch every python dependency to Python3 (removing packages no longer > available, commenting out python2-only packages); Closes: #935927 > > I'm wondering whether it would not be better to rather > > Suggests: python2-only > > packages.
i'm not very familiar on how people uses this tasks packages, but if (say) 90% of the python modules are python3-only, how can you use that 10% that's python2 only? you cant write code unless it's very specialized to that specific module and uses *none* of the py3k-only packages; most likely that module will get removed if there is no py3k support or if there is, we're gonna remove the py2 package anyway. the reason i left them as comment is for the science team to "remember" they used to be there and decide at a later time what to do: is the package still in Debian and been ported to py3k? add it back. was it removed? remove the commented line. > If the packages are commented out they become absolutely > invisible while per policy suggested packages do not need to exist and > thus the metapackages would not block a removal of the packages > themselves. the way we're tracking the removal (via http://sandrotosi.me/debian/py2removal/index.html) considers also the Suggests fields as a rdeps. Also i dont see anything about not being avaible as a valid state in https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-relationships.html#binary-dependencies-depends-recommends-suggests-enhances-pre-depends for suggests > Since you felt a need to change this in Git I guess you are interested > in a soonish upload. indeed i am :) > So if we have some consensus about the item above > I'll upload to get the changes applied. i gave you my opinion, but i'm happy with whatever the team comes up about it, if that means we can upload soon :) Cheers, -- Sandro "morph" Tosi My website: http://sandrotosi.me/ Me at Debian: http://wiki.debian.org/SandroTosi G+: https://plus.google.com/u/0/+SandroTosi
