This looks like an arbitrary restriction. There is no rationale given for that it is "confusing".
So here's a rationale why the *new* behaviour is "confusing". For packaging reasons you often split up packages in separate source packages. However this software is still upstream software, and seeing differing versioning schemas for a package built from python3.3 and python3.3-stdlib-extensions would be unexpected and confusing. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]

