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Re: Python 2 removal strategy

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Hi Ole,

It would be great have two different package. One of them, the python3
version and maintain the python2 version.

Regards!
Emmanuel

El mié., 10 de ene. de 2018 a la(s) 18:03, Matthias Klose <doko@debian.org>
escribió:

> On 10.01.2018 17:06, Ole Streicher wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am the maintainer of the "python-astropy" package, that currently
> > creates packages for both Python 2 and Python 3. Both packages have a
> > number of reverse dependencies.
> >
> > Recently, upstream announced a new version 3.0 of astropy, which
> > supports Python 3 only, and I think of the best mid-term strategy: The
> > old version 2.0 is supported upstream for ~2 years, and I want to have a
> > smooth migration path. I checked the wiki, but could not find good
> > information about migration.
>
> Currently discussed. See "Python2 EOL and moving towards Python3" on this
> ML.
>
> > I thought of a temporary package split: create a new source package
> > "astropy" that inherits of the current python-astropy package, but only
> > builds python3-astropy (and the utils + doc, which depend on
> > python3-astropy), and update this to version 3.0. Then I would remove
> > these binary packages from the python-astropy package. In parallel, I
> > would file bugs (severity: important) to remove the reverse dependencies
> > of the Python 2 packages (many of them are mine, but also may have
> > reverse dependencies).
> >
> > As long as there are substantial problems with the removal of the Python
> > 2 support, I then keep the "old" python-astropy package updated. Once
> > everything is figured out and we decide to finally kick out Python 2
> > support (from Debian-Astro, or from Debian), I would set the remaining
> > bugs as RC, and (once they are solved) remove the "python-astropy"
> > package.
> >
> > Does this sound reasonable? And how should I do this technically?
>
> well, astropy is not such a mainstream package that I would mind removing
> some
> of it's reverse dependencies.  If you want to add the additional pain
> having a
> separate Python2 source stack, go for it. I wouldn't want to do that
> myself.  If
> not, just go ahead with Python3 after having identified the reverse
> dependencies
> which are not maintained by yourself.
>
> Matthias
>
>

-- 
Arias Emmanuel
https://www.linkedin.com/in/emmanuel-arias-437a6a8a
http://eamanu.com

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