Re: Upstreams dropping Python 2 support

2018-09-27 Thread Simon McVittie
On Thu, 27 Sep 2018 at 11:58:28 +0200, Ole Streicher wrote: > Is there a reason why one would use Python2-sphinx instead of the Python > 3 version? src:dbus-python has more Python 2 API than Python 3 API (some objects cease to exist in Python 3 builds). As long as python-dbus.deb exists, it's

Re: Upstreams dropping Python 2 support

2018-09-27 Thread Dmitry Shachnev
On Thu, Sep 27, 2018 at 11:58:28AM +0200, Ole Streicher wrote: > Is there a reason why one would use Python2-sphinx instead of the Python > 3 version? How often in these 314 cases it is not just used as an > executable in d/rules? One possible reason is when sphinx.ext.autodoc is in use for

Re: Upstreams dropping Python 2 support

2018-09-27 Thread Ole Streicher
Dmitry Shachnev writes: > Sphinx 2.0 will also drop Python 2.7 support, so I am going to make the > “sphinx” source package ship only python3-sphinx, and introduce the new > source package (“sphinx-python2”?) which will ship only python-sphinx. > > Eventually I will also do a mass bug filing, but