On Sun, Aug 25, 2019 at 4:15 PM Scott Kitterman <[email protected]> wrote: > While reviewing your package in New, I noted a few errors related to the > python packaging. Please fix in a future upload. [...] > Python:Provides and XB-Python-Version are no longer used for Python and > have never been supported for Python 3. Thanks, fixed these.
> Also, it seems odd to have python-thrift conflict/replace itself, but I > didn't investigate that. It's versioned and only affects very old ones, currently only oldstable contains such version. The reason is simple. In the past thrift was a multi source packages. When I began building everything from one source (src:thrift) I had to put conflict/replace in as otherwise apt-get didn't upgrade the package (as it was from an other source, src:python-thrift). Laszlo/GCS
