On Mon, Nov 07, 2016 at 10:39:50PM +0100, Danny Milosavljevic wrote: > * gnu/packages/python.scm (python-pep8, python2-pep8): > Add replacement. > --- > gnu/packages/python.scm | 1 + > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) > > diff --git a/gnu/packages/python.scm b/gnu/packages/python.scm > index 5b5287e..c6ec6d3 100644 > --- a/gnu/packages/python.scm > +++ b/gnu/packages/python.scm > @@ -5645,6 +5645,7 @@ applications.") > (define-public python-pep8 > (package > (name "python-pep8") > + (replacement python-pycodestyle)
The grafted replacement system is for packages that have the same binary interface, and should be used when we must change a package *now* but it would otherwise require a huge number of rebuilds. That is, for security updates to core packages. There aren't very many packages using python-pep8 and python2-pep8, so we should just make them all use this new package that supersedes python-pep8.
