Control: tags -1 stretch-ignore Hi,
On Sun, Jan 29, 2017 at 06:13:10PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote: > On Sun, Jan 29, 2017 at 06:04:09PM +0000, Simon McVittie wrote: > > On Sat, 18 May 2013 at 23:29:22 +0200, Richard Hartmann wrote: > > > Broken Python upgrade left me without working debconf. > > > > I can't help thinking that this would be a lot more robust if debconf.deb > > (which is pseudo-Essential) didn't ship language bindings for a > > non-Essential programming language. perl-base and sh are Essential, > > but python (even the -minimal flavour) isn't. > > Yes, I think this is probably the best fix. I've been putting it off > because it's somewhat tedious to rearrange everything, but you're quite > right. > > > According to <https://codesearch.debian.net/search?q=import+debconf> and > > <https://codesearch.debian.net/search?q=from+debconf+import>, if > > debconf.py was split out into python-debconf and python3-debconf as per > > <https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/python-policy/>, > > the only packages that would need changes (RC bug + versioned Breaks) > > would be apt-listchanges and greylistd. > > Also at least ubiquity in Ubuntu. It ought to be possible to change all > of the rdepends first so that the impact is minimal. > > > That seems maybe a worthwhile thing to do post-stretch? > > Yep. OK. This kind of change shouldn't happen in stretch at this point, so tagging this -ignore. Cheers, Ivo
