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| From | Mattia Rizzolo <mattia@debian.org> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | linux.debian.bugs.dist, linux.debian.maint.python |
| Subject | Bug#909239: lintian: ancient-python-version-field is wrong |
| Date | 2018-09-20 13:10 +0200 |
| Message-ID | <wA50m-2Ih-11@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink) |
| References | <wA1SO-Jg-7@gated-at.bofh.it> <wA1SO-Jg-7@gated-at.bofh.it> |
| Organization | linux.* mail to news gateway |
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On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 09:43:46AM +0200, Julian Andres Klode wrote:
> lintian reports ancient-python-version-field for python-apt, but removing that
> causes py{,3}versions to complain:
>
> pyversions: missing X(S)-Python-Version in control file, fall back to debian/pyversions
> pyversions: missing debian/pyversions file, fall back to supported versions
> py3versions: no X-Python3-Version in control file, using supported versions
>
> hence the autopkgtests fail because of stderr, so it is not possible to remove
> those fields as lintian suggests.
>
> Lintian should not tell us to remove fields that then cause warnings in build
> tools. Or those tools should be fixed.
CCing the dh-python maintainers, as it's dh_python{2,3} that deals with
those fields...
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