Paul Wise <p...@debian.org> writes: > On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 1:40 AM, Barry Warsaw wrote: > > > What is the process for deprecating python-support? Who makes that > > decision? > > Add a lintian warning saying that it is deprecated.
Lintian isn't normative though. We should only add a Lintian warning to tell the packager of a *pre-existing* deprecation. The deprecation itself isn't a matter of changing Lintian, but of someone authoritative for Python policy saying that pysupport is deprecated. Who makes that decision? > Personally I've always wondered why a Debian-specific helper should be > needed instead of python upstream behaving the way we wanted. Those are not mutually exclusive :-) The helper is needed to make our packages more sensible, while we continue to advocate for upstream behaving the way we want. -- \ “The right to use [strong cryptography] is the right to speak | `\ Navajo.” —Eben Moglen | _o__) | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-python-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/871uz2whvb....@benfinney.id.au
