On Sat, 2017-04-01 at 15:55 +0000, Scott Kitterman wrote: > > On April 1, 2017 3:42:50 AM EDT, Ghislain Vaillant <ghisv...@gmail.com> wrote: > > ... > > > > How so? Buster will not be supporting Python 2, so the narrative of > > having new source packages only provide Python 3 binary packages is > > totally justified. > > What makes you think this is true?
I wonder whether I am the only one who read this [1] or that [2]. Pasting the relevant quotes below: "The 2.x series of Python is due for deprecation and will not be maintained past 2020 so it is recommended that Python 2 modules are not packaged unless necessary." "The idea is to basically stop uploading new Python 2 only libraries, port things on the critical path, and swap leaf packages to Python 3." csvkit definitely qualifies as such leaf package, since it is a collection of command-line tools, not a Python library. > As far as I know, Python 2 will be around a long time yet. Python 2 will be supported until 2020. That's sooner rather than later considering we are in 2017 and Stretch has not been released yet. [1] https://lintian.debian.org/tags/new-package-should-not-package-pyth on2-module.html [2] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2015/04/msg00005.htm l Ghis