On Tuesday, April 14, 2020 9:22:37 AM EDT Mattia Rizzolo wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 08:41:01AM -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote:
> > The package python-pip-whl is a special case of a Python package built
> > to work with either python or python3.  Currently python3-vertualenv
> > gets the following lintian warning:
> > 
> > W: python3-virtualenv:
> > python-package-depends-on-package-from-other-python-variant Depends:
> > python-pip-whl
> > 
> > While this is a great warning in general, in this case it's wrong.
> > Would it be OK to special case python-pip-whl and have it not trigger
> > this check?
> 
> I would wager that this is the exact use case for an override?

I've added on for python3-virtualenv pointing to this bug.  If that's the 
preference of the lintian maintainers, I have no objection, please close the 
bug and we have it documented why it's an override.

Scott K

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