Hi, I have filed bugs with ftp.debian.org to remove pychecker and epydoc from the archive. These packages are obsolete - they rely on Python 2 and can't be converted to Python 3. I filed bugs with all of the reverse dependencies back in November of 2017 advising that I would remove these packages after buster was released. Unfortunately, both packages still have some reverse dependencies (most of which appear to be obsolete themselves).
The Developer Reference says that a package will stay in testing until no package in testing depends on it any more. In that case, it seems like pychecker and epydoc will never be removed. Do I understand that correctly? How am I supposed to handle this? Can my packages be removed from testing manually? Or is there some other mechanism I should use? Thanks for the help, KEN -- Kenneth J. Pronovici <[email protected]>
