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Subject: Re: Matplotlib 3.0 - update ok?
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ghisvail@gmail.com writes:
> Don't get me wrong, I am all in favour for a modern stack, including
> Python 3.
>
> However, upgrading NumPy et al. to their Python 3 only versions,
> introducing new legacy packages for Python 2, and patching the large
> collection of packages relying on the Python 2 versions of these sounds
> like a lot of work for the time we have got left in the Buster release
> cycle.

In my understanding there is no need to patch any of the reverse
dependencies. Currently there are binary packages called python-numpy
and python3-numpy, built from a source package called python-numpy. In
my understanding the proposed change is to keep having the exact same
binary packages, just built from two different source packages
(python-numpy and python-numpy-legacy or whatever).

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Arto Jantunen