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Re: Python 3 transition question

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On September 2, 2019 4:00:53 AM UTC, Sandro Tosi <morph@debian.org> wrote:
>> 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.
>
>i dont believe this is a sensible approach; for example i maintain
>python-mpmath, that would be rendered uninstallable the moment
>python-gmp2 is removed. Now, python-mpmath has 3 external
>reverse-dependencies (just to name a couple, sagemath and simpy) that
>would be then uninstallable, and so on and so forth for all their
>rdeps.
>
>Martin, i think for now the only option is to keep the py2 packages
>around until we're ready to drop them (ie they have 0 rdeps).

I just checked on packages.d.o and according to it, python-gmp2 is a Suggests.  Suggests aren't installed with packages.  Unless I'm missing something, python-mpmath wouldn't become uninstallable.

IIRC, policy doesn't even require Suggests packages to exist.

I agree about keeping packages as long as they have reverse Recommends, but I think Suggests is going too far (although AIUI, missing Recommends don't make the package uninstallable either).

Scott K

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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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