On Tue, 26 Jan 2021 12:46:39 +0100
Matthias Klose <d...@debian.org> wrote:
> On 1/11/21 5:34 PM, Shai Berger wrote:
> > Package: python3-distutils
> > Version: 3.9.1-2
> > Severity: normal
> >
> >
> > While this packages lists, among other things,
> > Breaks: ..., libpython3.8-stdlib (< 3.8.0~b2-5)
> >
> > In fact, [it breaks all versions of] libpython3.8-stdlib.
> >
> > I see two, non-exclusionary paths to solve this:
> > - Just mark the breakage correctly
>
> Closing this issue as won't fix.
Please just fix the Breaks info. Mark libpython3.8-stdlib as
uncoditionally broken by current versions of python3-distutils.
Further,
>
> The python3-tk, python3-gdbm and python3-distutils packages are real
> packages, not virtual packages, which support both the old 3.8 and
> the new 3.9 Python versions during the time Debian is doing the
> transition to a new Python3 version. After the transition we remove
> 3.8, so we only build those using 3.9.
>
In my suggestion:
> > - Provide real, rather than virtual, python3.x-distutils packages
I wasn't referring to python3-distutils, but to python3.8-distutils or
python3.9-distutils, which are virtual (provided by python3-distutils).
I fully understand and support a decision not to make them real
packages; I appreciate that this would be more work for busy volunteer
maintainers, for a less-than-mainstream use-case.
Thanks for all your efforts,
Shai.
