Path: csiph.com!aioe.org!bofh.it!news.nic.it!robomod From: Ole Streicher Newsgroups: linux.debian.maint.python Subject: Re: Upstreams dropping Python 2 support Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2018 12:20:01 +0200 Message-ID: References: X-Original-To: debian-python@lists.debian.org X-Mailbox-Line: From debian-python-request@lists.debian.org Thu Sep 27 10:15:09 2018 Old-Return-Path: X-Amavis-Spam-Status: No, score=-6.999 tagged_above=-10000 required=5.3 tests=[BAYES_00=-2, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.001, LDO_WHITELIST=-5] autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Policyd-Weight: using cached result; rate: -7 User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.2 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Lines: 16 X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/16372 List-ID: List-URL: List-Archive: https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/87o9cjntx7.fsf@debian.org Approved: robomod@news.nic.it Organization: linux.* mail to news gateway Sender: robomod@news.nic.it X-Original-Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2018 11:58:28 +0200 X-Original-Message-ID: <87o9cjntx7.fsf@debian.org> X-Original-References: <20180802151614.jlu5w3l3lnhwi3he@werner.olasd.eu> <20180927095508.GA19722@mitya57.me> Xref: csiph.com linux.debian.maint.python:10942 Dmitry Shachnev writes: > Sphinx 2.0 will also drop Python 2.7 support, so I am going to make the > “sphinx” source package ship only python3-sphinx, and introduce the new > source package (“sphinx-python2”?) which will ship only python-sphinx. > > Eventually I will also do a mass bug filing, but with the current 314 > python-sphinx reverse build-depends it is clear that I will have to ship > sphinx-python2 for quite some time. Is there a reason why one would use Python2-sphinx instead of the Python 3 version? How often in these 314 cases it is not just used as an executable in d/rules? Cheers Ole