Le sam. 21 avr. 2018 20:04, Chris Lamb <la...@debian.org> a écrit :

> Adrian Bunk wrote:
>
> > The tip of the iceberg are some recent cases where Python 2 modules
> > were dropped that still had reverse dependencies in unstable
>
> I suspect developers may be reading too much into Lintian output,
> reading them as "Please remove your Python 2.x module".
>
> The motivating behind these tags were to prevent new Python 2.x
> packages being added to the archive (due to habit if anything
> else!) unless they were needed or requested, of course.
>

Indeed, python 2 modules are not forbidden, but NEW packages are *expected*
to provide python 3 plus optionally python 2 support, not python 2 only.
But good reasons would allow package to be accepted anyway.
I think that warning is really to hint users to go to python 3 which should
be default now....

Olivier

>
> Suggestions for rewording gratefully received.
>
>
> Regards,
>
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