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Re: Removing python2 packages

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Subject	Re: Removing python2 packages
Date	Wed, 24 Jul 2019 23:40:01 +0200
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On July 24, 2019 4:08:54 PM UTC, Scott Talbert <swt@techie.net> wrote:
>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?

It depends (pun intended).  I've recently upgraded some Python applications to python3, so python-foo depends changed to python3-foo.  If the only reason python-foo was installed was because it was a dependency of the application, then it'll be eligible for apt autoremove.

Scott K

Thread

Removing python2 packages Scott Talbert <swt@techie.net> - 2019-07-23 16:50 +0200
  Re: Removing python2 packages Neil Williams <codehelp@debian.org> - 2019-07-23 19:50 +0200
  Re: Removing python2 packages Ondrej Novy <novy@ondrej.org> - 2019-07-23 19:50 +0200
    Re: Removing python2 packages Scott Talbert <swt@techie.net> - 2019-07-24 18:10 +0200
      Re: Removing python2 packages Neil Williams <codehelp@debian.org> - 2019-07-24 20:10 +0200
        Re: Removing python2 packages Scott Talbert <swt@techie.net> - 2019-07-24 20:50 +0200
        Re: Removing python2 packages Scott Talbert <swt@techie.net> - 2019-07-26 15:50 +0200
      Re: Removing python2 packages Scott Kitterman <debian@kitterman.com> - 2019-07-24 23:40 +0200
    Re: Removing python2 packages Scott Talbert <swt@techie.net> - 2019-07-30 15:50 +0200
      Re: Removing python2 packages Scott Talbert <swt@techie.net> - 2019-07-30 23:50 +0200
        Re: Removing python2 packages Samuel Thibault <sthibault@debian.org> - 2019-07-31 03:10 +0200
        Re: Removing python2 packages Samuel Thibault <sthibault@debian.org> - 2019-07-31 03:10 +0200
          Re: Removing python2 packages Samuel Thibault <sthibault@debian.org> - 2019-07-31 03:30 +0200
  Re: Removing python2 packages Jonathan Carter <jcc@debian.org> - 2019-07-23 21:30 +0200

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