user debian-pyt...@lists.debian.org
usertags 938834 + py2keep
thanks
On Fri, Aug 30, 2019 at 10:22:11PM +0100, Olly Betts wrote:
> user debian-pyt...@lists.debian.org
> usertags 938836 + py2keep
I just spotted that I typoed the bug number here (938836 is another
package I maintain which also should be py2keep for now).
See quote below for rationale:
> On Fri, Aug 30, 2019 at 07:58:50AM +0000, Matthias Klose wrote:
> > - Convert your Package to Python3. This is the preferred option. In
> > case you are providing a Python module foo, please consider dropping
> > the python-foo package, and only build a python3-foo package. Please
> > don't drop Python2 modules, which still have reverse dependencies,
> > just document them.
>
> The migration path is to wxpython4.0, but upstream did a complete
> rewrite and it's not a drop in replacement.
>
> > - If the package has still many users (popcon >= 300), or is needed to
> > build another package which cannot be removed, document that by
> > adding the "py2keep" user tag (not replacing the py2remove tag),
> > using the debian-pyt...@lists.debian.org user. Also any
> > dependencies on an unversioned python package (python, python-dev)
> > must not be used, same with the python shebang. These have to be
> > replaced by python2/python2.7 dependencies and shebang.
>
> popcon is 14342.
Cheers,
Olly
