On July 9, 2015 7:39:15 AM EDT, Ian Cordasco <graffatcolmin...@gmail.com> wrote: >On Jul 9, 2015 5:25 AM, "Robert Collins" <robe...@robertcollins.net> >wrote: >> >> On 3 July 2015 at 08:29, Scott Kitterman <deb...@kitterman.com> >wrote: >> >> > I think dropping these duplicates is the only thing that makes >sense. >For >> > reference, I dropped python3-ipaddr once python3.2 was gone >(because >3.3 has >> > ipaddress, which does the same thing). >> >> Where its a dupe sure. >> >> unittest2, traceback2, linecache2, mock are not duplicates of the >> functionality in 3.4 - they are backports of things in 3.5 (to all >> pythons). And they will shortly have more than 3.5 itself has in it, >> as they are rolling backports: what lands in 3.6 will go into them. >So >> I don't think removing them makes sense. >> >> I don't have a view on other packages. >> >> -Rob >> > >Further, should API compatibility also be considered? If I remember >correctly ipaddress in the stdlib and ipaddr have similar but not >exactly >identical APIs
I dropped python3-ipaddr only after all the reverse-depends were ported to use ipaddress from the stdlib. So I agree it should be considered and it was. Scott K -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-python-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/2bbc7d70-567d-4d8b-ab9c-06bce1915...@kitterman.com
