Path: csiph.com!news.mixmin.net!aioe.org!bofh.it!news.nic.it!robomod From: Jonathan Carter Newsgroups: linux.debian.maint.python Subject: Re: upstream python concerns, python3-full package for bullseye Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2021 11:40:02 +0100 Message-ID: References: X-Original-To: debian-python@lists.debian.org X-Mailbox-Line: From debian-python-request@lists.debian.org Fri Feb 12 10:37:58 2021 Old-Return-Path: X-Amavis-Spam-Status: No, score=-5.445 tagged_above=-10000 required=5.3 tests=[BAYES_00=-2, LDO_WHITELIST=-5, NICE_REPLY_A=-0.105, SARE_MLH_Stock10=1.66] autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Policyd-Weight: using cached result; rate: -3.5 Organization: Debian User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/18987 List-ID: List-URL: List-Archive: https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/0fd778e4-d3b5-9e30-20f7-ea30a9479817@debian.org Approved: robomod@news.nic.it Lines: 10 Sender: robomod@news.nic.it X-Original-Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2021 12:37:39 +0200 X-Original-Message-ID: <0fd778e4-d3b5-9e30-20f7-ea30a9479817@debian.org> X-Original-References: <20210211181234.GA4829@silverpine> <5c9a9365-20b9-c600-638c-6c74a024779a@debian.org> <20210212004259.dnrbzkfkszwqctpw@satie.tumbleweed.org.za> <20210212094048.GC29617@valentin-vidic.from.hr> Xref: csiph.com linux.debian.maint.python:13204 On 2021/02/12 11:40, Valentin Vidic wrote: > Perhaps python3-core would be more appropriate, and python3-full can be > left for something even bigger. I saw some discussion about this before, and it does sound nice, but it would require change to a few thousand packages to handle such a transition, where adding python3-full doesn't really add work for anyone except maintaining another meta-package. -Jonathan