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Re: Removing some python3-* packages

From	Barry Warsaw <barry@debian.org>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.maint.python
Subject	Re: Removing some python3-* packages
Date	2015-08-25 00:00 +0200
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On Aug 19, 2015, at 06:41 PM, Matthias Klose wrote:

>As a Debian developer you are duplicating code, and no, I don't think that
>providing this code under a different name is different enough to rectify
>distribution of this code in Debian.

In some cases however, the standalone library moves ahead of the stdlib,
because they have hugely different release cycles.  They may eventually catch
up every 18 months (when a new Python is released), but in the meantime the
divergence might be needed by dependent packages.

So I'm not sure a blanket policy is useful.  By all means, if there isn't any
significant difference between a standalone package and what's available in
the current supported Python 3 version, let's not ship unnecessary binary
packages.

Cheers,
-Barry

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Re: Removing some python3-* packages Matthias Klose <doko@debian.org> - 2015-08-19 18:50 +0200
  Re: Removing some python3-* packages Barry Warsaw <barry@debian.org> - 2015-08-25 00:00 +0200
    Re: Removing some python3-* packages Robert Collins <robertc@robertcollins.net> - 2015-08-25 00:10 +0200
      Re: Removing some python3-* packages Barry Warsaw <barry@debian.org> - 2015-08-25 00:40 +0200
        Re: Removing some python3-* packages Robert Collins <robertc@robertcollins.net> - 2015-08-25 00:50 +0200
          Re: Removing some python3-* packages Barry Warsaw <barry@debian.org> - 2015-08-25 01:30 +0200
            Re: Removing some python3-* packages Robert Collins <robertc@robertcollins.net> - 2015-08-25 01:40 +0200
              Re: Removing some python3-* packages Barry Warsaw <barry@debian.org> - 2015-08-25 01:50 +0200
              Re: Removing some python3-* packages Thomas Kluyver <thomas@kluyver.me.uk> - 2015-08-25 01:50 +0200
                Re: Removing some python3-* packages Robert Collins <robertc@robertcollins.net> - 2015-08-25 04:00 +0200

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