On Monday, May 14, 2018 10:51:45 AM Joseph Herlant wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, May 14, 2018 at 3:14 AM, Thomas Goirand <[email protected]> wrote: > > As Ondrej wrote, there's only a few packages having this. How about we > > just do a few NMUs as a team to fix that completely in the archive? > > I was actually thinking about integrating that removal to Ondřej's > next mass-update (along with debian/pycompat) and if the packages are > not released in the next 2 months or so, I was planning to do some > team uploads on them (I saw some that have not been touched in a while > and that would benefit from a big cleanup). > > On Mon, May 14, 2018 at 3:24 AM, Ondrej Novy <[email protected]> wrote: > > I didn't write count and I don't have list :) > > The lintian tag would help getting the number easily! ;) > > One of my thoughts about introducing it on info level is that we > should probably update https://wiki.debian.org/Python/Policy (I'll > start a separate thread on that) before having it on error level as > the page still shows examples with old/deprecated build systems. > > Another reason to put that in lintian is that we still have all the > openstack python package to migrate to DPMT and those have a bunch of > pycompat and pyversions file that a lintian note about it would help > not forgetting that when we migrate those (I'll try to do some when I > got more spare time).
I don't think deleting pycompat and pyversions is worth an upload. They are obsolete and should be removed, but don't actually hurt anything. Scott K
