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Re: on keep providing python 2 packages

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From	Barry Warsaw <barry@debian.org>
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On Aug 19, 2016, at 08:19 AM, Sandro Tosi wrote:

>I got a feeling we are somehow discouraging the introduction of
>python2 package in unstable (it was also discussed at the BoF).

Hi Sandro,

Just to clarify my own opinion, for *libraries* which upstream supports both
Python 2 and Python 3, we should provide both in Debian.  It's also easy, so
why not? :)

I think we should discourage libraries where upstream only provides Python 2
versions, by trying to find bilingual alternatives.  Sometimes this is
unavoidable though.

For *applications* which support both Python 2 and 3, we want to install them
only as Python 3 applications, unless there's some overriding reason why we
need to provide them for both.  That gets into the ugly `nose2-3` situation,
so let's really try to avoid that, and encourage `$python -m` style invocation
where possible.

Now let's talk about libraries for PyPy and Jython. :)

Cheers,
-Barry

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on keep providing python 2 packages Sandro Tosi <morph@debian.org> - 2016-08-19 09:30 +0200
  Re: on keep providing python 2 packages Olivier Sallou <olivier.sallou@irisa.fr> - 2016-08-19 09:50 +0200
  Re: on keep providing python 2 packages Ondrej Novy <novy@ondrej.org> - 2016-08-19 10:10 +0200
  Re: on keep providing python 2 packages Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org> - 2016-08-19 11:50 +0200
  Re: on keep providing python 2 packages "W. Martin Borgert" <debacle@debian.org> - 2016-08-19 12:20 +0200
  Re: on keep providing python 2 packages Dmitry Shachnev <mitya57@debian.org> - 2016-08-19 12:50 +0200
    Re: on keep providing python 2 packages Sandro Tosi <morph@debian.org> - 2016-08-19 13:00 +0200
      Re: on keep providing python 2 packages Dmitry Shachnev <mitya57@debian.org> - 2016-08-19 19:30 +0200
        Re: on keep providing python 2 packages Sandro Tosi <morph@debian.org> - 2016-08-20 18:50 +0200
          Re: on keep providing python 2 packages Mattia Rizzolo <mattia@debian.org> - 2016-08-20 21:10 +0200
            Re: on keep providing python 2 packages Sandro Tosi <morph@debian.org> - 2016-08-20 22:30 +0200
              Re: on keep providing python 2 packages Rick Thomas <rbthomas@pobox.com> - 2016-08-21 00:40 +0200
              Re: on keep providing python 2 packages Piotr Ożarowski <piotr@debian.org> - 2016-08-21 00:40 +0200
                Re: on keep providing python 2 packages Mattia Rizzolo <mattia@debian.org> - 2016-08-21 09:50 +0200
                Re: on keep providing python 2 packages Barry Warsaw <barry@debian.org> - 2016-08-21 22:20 +0200
    Re: on keep providing python 2 packages "Elena ``of Valhalla''" <elena.valhalla@gmail.com> - 2016-08-20 13:40 +0200
  Re: on keep providing python 2 packages Barry Warsaw <barry@debian.org> - 2016-08-19 15:30 +0200

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