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Re: Removing some python3-* packages

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From	Ian Cordasco <graffatcolmingov@gmail.com>
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Subject	Re: Removing some python3-* packages
Date	Thu, 09 Jul 2015 14:00:04 +0200
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On Jul 9, 2015 5:25 AM, "Robert Collins" <robertc@robertcollins.net> wrote:
>
> On 3 July 2015 at 08:29, Scott Kitterman <debian@kitterman.com> wrote:
>
> > I think dropping these duplicates is the only thing that makes sense.
For
> > reference, I dropped python3-ipaddr once python3.2 was gone (because
3.3 has
> > ipaddress, which does the same thing).
>
> Where its a dupe sure.
>
> unittest2, traceback2, linecache2, mock are not duplicates of the
> functionality in 3.4 - they are backports of things in 3.5 (to all
> pythons). And they will shortly have more than 3.5 itself has in it,
> as they are rolling backports: what lands in 3.6 will go into them. So
> I don't think removing them makes sense.
>
> I don't have a view on other packages.
>
> -Rob
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Further, should API compatibility also be considered? If I remember
correctly ipaddress in the stdlib and ipaddr have similar but not exactly
identical APIs

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Re: Removing some python3-* packages Ian Cordasco <graffatcolmingov@gmail.com> - 2015-07-09 14:00 +0200
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