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From: Scott Talbert <swt@techie.net>
Newsgroups: linux.debian.maint.python
Subject: Re: Removing python2 packages
Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2019 18:10:01 +0200
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On Tue, 23 Jul 2019, Ondrej Novy wrote:

> út 23. 7. 2019 v 11:40 odesílatel Scott Talbert <swt@techie.net> napsal:
>       When removing leaf python2 packages for bullseye, is there
>       anything
> 
> 
> __modules__ package :)
>  
>       special that needs to be done, other than removing the building
>       of the
>       python2 subpackage?
>
>       For example, obsoleting of the old package or anything along
>       those lines?
> 
> 
> * check reverse-depends and "reverse-depends -b"
> * remove from d/control
> * remove from d/tests
> * remove from d/rules
> * check/remove d/python-* files
> * test
> * upload

Thanks.  The reason I asked about 'obsoleting' is because I wondered about 
what will happen on the upgrade case.  Say, I remove python-foo from 
bullseye.  When a user running buster with python-foo installed upgrades 
to bullseye, what will happen?  Will apt try to remove python-foo?

Scott
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