Hi Julien and thanks for filing this bug.
I think your suggestion could work in principle, however I doubt it will
be implemented in practice. It would mean modifying a package to support
an unsupported package and more in general an unsupported setup.
Splitting the package in Debian would require it to go through the NEW
queue again, which can be a quite lengthy process. Moreover Ubuntu would
pickup the fixed package only in Hirsute (at best), so your existing
systems wouldn't get the fix. Fixing the package directly in Ubuntu
isn't a good idea either, as it's currently a sync from Debian, and we
tend to avoid adding package deltas when possible, and still the fix
could only land in Hirsute.
If you still want to try this way I suggest you to file a bug in Debian
and wait for the package maintainers opinion, however the true way
forward here is to leave Python2 behind. If that's not an option you can
still stick to Bionic for the moment, it's supported until 2028.
I'm setting this bug to Incomplete to leave it open for further
discussion if needed, but I think it should be considered a Won't Fix.
** Changed in: python3-chardet (Ubuntu)
Status: Confirmed => Incomplete
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Title:
python3-chardet breaks install of python-chardet
Status in python3-chardet package in Ubuntu:
Incomplete
Bug description:
I'm trying to install python-chardet (for python-2.7), but it fails
because latest python3-chardet breaks python-chardet. I fail to
understand why the python3 version of chardet would break the
python2.7 version of the same module.
PS: I know that python2.7 is not supported anymore, but I have an
application that depends on it, and I need to install it, and that's
now impossible because of this bug.
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