[adding Matthias to CC as he filed #883581] [adding Holger to CC as he filed #886259]
Hi Scott, Thanks for opening this! > I understand (and agree with) the intent of this check, but in practice, it's > harming the release. I don't think it is salvageable. This tag has quite a history: - https://bugs.debian.org/870822 — Added as P: - https://bugs.debian.org/883581 — P: → W: - https://bugs.debian.org/886259 — W: → I: - https://bugs.debian.org/897213 — removal requested (this bug) I suppose one question would be: why not downgrade it and/or make it more explicit that you shouldn't blindly remove it? :) > There has been a lot of discussion on debian-devel about the future of > python2.7 in Buster. The dependency-on-python-version-marked-for-end-of-life > flag is confusing people into thinking they should drop python2.7 support from > their packages because it isn't going to be in Buster. (Just out of interest, do you have any concrete examples? The thread itself talks a lot about packages being removed with scant citations.) Regards, -- ,''`. : :' : Chris Lamb `. `'` la...@debian.org / chris-lamb.co.uk `-