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From: Scott Kitterman <debian@kitterman.com>
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Subject: Re: Mass-commit fix of lintian ancient-python-version-field
Date: Fri, 11 May 2018 20:40:02 +0200
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On Friday, May 11, 2018 09:33:20 AM Joseph Herlant wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Fri, May 11, 2018, 1:10 AM Ondrej Novy <novy@ondrej.org> wrote:
> > no problem, so just remove that file?
> > 
> > 
> > https://github.com/onovy/onovy-mass/commit/2c24adf1ecd8fc934328f69c75b2b2d
> > 9256ee3c9
> > 
> > Are we sure it's completely safe to remove it globally?
> 
> This file has been deprecated for about 10 years if I'm correct. It was
> used in old versions of dh_python and dh_pysupport.
> I will double-check the code of dh_python when I'm back at a computer but
> it was already asked to remove it when we migrated to dh_python2 in 2015,
> see: https://wiki.debian.org/Python/TransitionToDHPython2

If it's removal causes a problem, then we will have found a bug in the tool 
that has the problem.  pyversions will still use it if it's found, but it 
doesn't require it.

Scott K