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Re: Python 3 transition question

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On 01.09.19 21:48, Martin Kelly wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I maintain python-gmpy and python-gmpy2, which need to transition to Python 3. 
> However, they have several packages that have Suggests or Recommends (not a hard 
> dependency) pointing to python-gmpy/python-gmpy2. These other packages appear to 
> be Python 2 only.
> 
> Should I stop building the Python 2 versions of these packages (and invalidate 
> the Suggests/Recommends of these other packages), or should I instead just 
> document this issue? If I document it, where should this documentation go?

I would just stop building these.  And if the reverse dependencies have a 
py2removal bug itself, then comment in these issues that the 
suggested/recommended package gets removed.  If they don't have a py2removal 
bug, please file the bugs for these packages.

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Python 3 transition question Martin Kelly <martin@martingkelly.com> - 2019-09-01 21:50 +0200
  Re: Python 3 transition question Matthias Klose <doko@debian.org> - 2019-09-02 02:00 +0200
    Re: Python 3 transition question Sandro Tosi <morph@debian.org> - 2019-09-02 06:10 +0200
      Re: Python 3 transition question Scott Kitterman <debian@kitterman.com> - 2019-09-02 07:10 +0200
        Re: Python 3 transition question Martin Kelly <martin@martingkelly.com> - 2019-09-02 22:20 +0200
          Re: Python 3 transition question Martin Kelly <martin@martingkelly.com> - 2019-09-05 01:00 +0200

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