Path: csiph.com!3.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!weretis.net!feeder7.news.weretis.net!news.mixmin.net!aioe.org!bofh.it!news.nic.it!robomod From: Simon McVittie Newsgroups: linux.debian.maint.python Subject: Re: Discussing next steps for the Python2 removal Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2019 11:00:01 +0100 Message-ID: References: X-Original-To: debian-python@lists.debian.org X-Mailbox-Line: From debian-python-request@lists.debian.org Mon Oct 28 09:56:41 2019 Old-Return-Path: X-Amavis-Spam-Status: No, score=-9.3 tagged_above=-10000 required=5.3 tests=[BAYES_00=-2, LDO_WHITELIST=-5, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED=-2.3] autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Policyd-Weight: using cached result; rate: -3.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Mutt/1.10.1 (2018-07-13) X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/17517 List-ID: List-URL: List-Archive: https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/20191028095559.GA21485@espresso.pseudorandom.co.uk Approved: robomod@news.nic.it Lines: 13 Organization: linux.* mail to news gateway Sender: robomod@news.nic.it X-Original-Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2019 09:56:00 +0000 X-Original-Message-ID: <20191028095559.GA21485@espresso.pseudorandom.co.uk> X-Original-References: Xref: csiph.com linux.debian.maint.python:11956 On Fri, 25 Oct 2019 at 12:38:11 +0200, Ondrej Novy wrote: > this is not how autorm works. You can't remove from testing only one of two > binary package from same source package. You are removing  package as a whole. > > But maintainer can anytime fix that bug by removing py2 binary from source > package, which is few minutes work. The maintainer of a leaf package can do this in a few minutes at any time, but library packages with many reverse-dependencies (for example dbus-python) don't really have that option, so I hope using autorm for library packages is not on the table at this stage? smcv