package python3-chardet breaks package python-chardet

From	Marco Möller <talby@debianlists.mobilxpress.net>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	package python3-chardet breaks package python-chardet
Date	2020-05-13 16:30 +0200
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As package python3-chardet defines to break package python-chardet, I 
cannot upgrade python3-chardet because I am still very satisfied using 
software "cherrytree" which depends on python-chardet. My finding is, 
that I would have to remove python-chardet, which subsequently would 
also remove cherrytree. This is also the solution found by 'apt 
dist-upgrade'.
I am wondering why those packages could not simply stay installed in 
parallel, as before, or what other solution I now could have available?
If there is no practicable solution, then how to proceed? Writing an 
email to the package maintainers and ask them to rethink about the 
defined dependencies of their packages, asking Piotr to maybe remove the 
"breaks" definition, or asking Guiseppe to "depend" on python3-chardet 
instead of python chardet? I am not feeling good with either of these ideas.
How would you treat this?
Thanks, Marco.

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package python3-chardet breaks package python-chardet Marco Möller <talby@debianlists.mobilxpress.net> - 2020-05-13 16:30 +0200
  Re: package python3-chardet breaks package python-chardet Marco Möller <talby@debianlists.mobilxpress.net> - 2020-05-13 17:50 +0200
    Re: package python3-chardet breaks package python-chardet Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2020-05-14 08:40 +0200
      Re: package python3-chardet breaks package python-chardet Marco Möller <talby@debianlists.mobilxpress.net> - 2020-05-14 11:50 +0200
        Re: package python3-chardet breaks package python-chardet Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2020-05-14 13:10 +0200
          Re: package python3-chardet breaks package python-chardet Marco Möller <talby@debianlists.mobilxpress.net> - 2020-05-14 22:10 +0200

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