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Re: Raising severity to serious for some Python 2 leaf packages with no Python 3 support upstream

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On Mon, Oct 14, 2019 at 09:54:18AM -0400, Sandro Tosi wrote:
> i think it's a bit premature to raise severity to RC (we should also
> check with the release team): these bugs have been opened since just 2
> months and a half, and the development cycle for bullseye started not
> longer before. there's still a lot of time. (and removing a py2
> package from a leaf pkg takes 5 minutes, usually, so if everyone in
> this thread had done that instead of writing an email, we'd be down 5
> bugs already :D )
> 
> I think it's also extremely premature (and just a bad idea in general)
> to consider breakage of reverse dependencies but just dropping py2
> packages. the Release Team is extremely unhappy with this approach for
> dealing with the py2removal bugs, so let's not even consider that
> option.

I agree with this.

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WBR, wRAR

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Re: Raising severity to serious for some Python 2 leaf packages with  no Python 3 support upstream Ondrej Novy <novy@ondrej.org> - 2019-10-14 10:40 +0200
  Re: Raising severity to serious for some Python 2 leaf packages with  no Python 3 support upstream Sandro Tosi <morph@debian.org> - 2019-10-14 16:00 +0200
    Re: Raising severity to serious for some Python 2 leaf packages with  no Python 3 support upstream Andrey Rahmatullin <wrar@debian.org> - 2019-10-14 16:30 +0200
    Re: Raising severity to serious for some Python 2 leaf packages with  no Python 3 support upstream Sandro Tosi <morph@debian.org> - 2019-10-15 17:10 +0200

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