Bug#893924: python3-distutils: Please describe road map/recommendations for users of distutils

2021-01-06 Thread Matthias Klose
The current CPython plan is to deprecate distutils in 3.10 and 3.11, and then remove it in 3.12. https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0632/

Bug#893924: python3-distutils: Please describe road map/recommendations for users of distutils

2018-03-27 Thread Jeremy Stanley
On 2018-03-24 00:03:12 + (+), Simon McVittie wrote: [...] > On Fri, 23 Mar 2018 at 20:30:17 +, Jeremy Stanley wrote: > > This may also serve to help narrow down (via reverse dependency) the > > list of packages which will trigger violent reactions when mixed in > > the same context with

Bug#893924: python3-distutils: Please describe road map/recommendations for users of distutils

2018-03-23 Thread Simon McVittie
On Sat, 24 Mar 2018 at 07:09:23 +0800, Matthias Klose wrote: > On 24.03.2018 03:35, Simon McVittie wrote: > > I assume there is a reason (size on disk? dependencies? update > > frequency?) why most of distutils shouldn't be in -stdlib, but in the > > absence of a reference in the changelog, I can o

Bug#893924: python3-distutils: Please describe road map/recommendations for users of distutils

2018-03-23 Thread Simon McVittie
On Fri, 23 Mar 2018 at 19:35:55 +, Simon McVittie wrote: > When a small subset of distutils moved back, I assume that the > intention was to un-break the relatively common(?) case of users of > distutils.version that do not need the rest of the module, such as > the gdbus-codegen tool in libgli

Bug#893924: python3-distutils: Please describe road map/recommendations for users of distutils

2018-03-23 Thread Matthias Klose
On 24.03.2018 03:35, Simon McVittie wrote: > Package: python3-distutils > Version: 3.6.5~rc1-2 > Severity: wishlist > X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-pyt...@lists.debian.org > > I'm confused about the current status of distutils, and what should be > done by packages that depend on it to be as future-proof a

Bug#893924: python3-distutils: Please describe road map/recommendations for users of distutils

2018-03-23 Thread Jeremy Stanley
This may also serve to help narrow down (via reverse dependency) the list of packages which will trigger violent reactions when mixed in the same context with pip 10 invocations, per https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/4805 . -- Jeremy Stanley

Bug#893924: python3-distutils: Please describe road map/recommendations for users of distutils

2018-03-23 Thread Simon McVittie
Package: python3-distutils Version: 3.6.5~rc1-2 Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-pyt...@lists.debian.org I'm confused about the current status of distutils, and what should be done by packages that depend on it to be as future-proof as possible. I don't think I'm the only one confused by th