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Re: Removing some python3-* packages

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On 3 July 2015 at 11:44, Ian Cordasco <graffatcolmingov@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 2, 2015 at 6:40 PM, Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au> wrote:
>> Barry Warsaw <barry@debian.org> writes:
>>
>>> […] there's actually no reason to have a Python 3 version of enum in
>>> any version >= Python 3.4. […]
>>
>> Ian Cordasco <graffatcolmingov@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> Probably a silly question, but are other libraries like unittest2 also
>>> being packaged for python3? Another library is mock. That was included
>>> in the stdlib in 3.3.
>>
>> One consideration is: What code is written to be Python 2 and Python 3
>> compatible from the same code base, which achieves this by importing a
>> module which is backported to Python 2?
>>
>> In some of my code I'm doing ‘import unit2’ to have features from that
>> library available in Python 2 code.
>>
>> Since those features are all in Python 3's standard library, the case
>> could be made that ‘python3-unit2’ is pointless; but against that is the
>> fact that a Python 3 ‘unit2’ package means that ‘import unit2’ will work
>> the same on both runtime versions.
>>
>> So I'd argue that ‘python3-mock’ and the like do have a place in Debian:
>> they make it easier to follow the recommended strategy of having a code
>> base run unchanged on Python2 and Python 3.
>
> Just to be clear, trying to use mock on 3.4 is thoroughly broken. If
> you can install python3-mock right now and use it in 3.4, then y'all
> must be carrying patches to make it work. The last 3.x version that
> mock works on is 3.3.
>
> That clearly doesn't have a place on a debian with python 3.5 as the
> version of python 3 included, unless you're planning on supporting
> packages for python 3.3 as well that will generate a numerous amount
> of bugs for you.

See my prior mail. I will be backporting all the changes in mock from
the stdlib to the mock standalone lib in the near future.

I have upload acls from Michael Foord for PyPI and I'm not afraid to
use them to fix it up - if you wanted to prep a narrow patch to fix
3.4 then please do so here - https://github.com/testing-cabal/mock

-Rob

-- 
Robert Collins <rbtcollins@hp.com>
Distinguished Technologist
HP Converged Cloud


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Re: Removing some python3-* packages Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au> - 2015-07-03 01:50 +0200
  Re: Removing some python3-* packages Ian Cordasco <graffatcolmingov@gmail.com> - 2015-07-03 02:10 +0200
    Re: Removing some python3-* packages Robert Collins <robertc@robertcollins.net> - 2015-07-03 05:10 +0200
  Re: Removing some python3-* packages Robert Collins <robertc@robertcollins.net> - 2015-07-03 05:10 +0200

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