Public bug reported:

There are two scapy forks:
- secdev/scapy, the original fork, which only recently supports python 3 (since 
2.4.0+)
- phaethon/scapy, a 2015 fork of secdev/scapy, which has been supporting for a 
long time, but has now diverged a lot from the original package (+ is outdated 
in many ways)

The second fork (phaethon/scapy) is wrongly packed as python3-scapy,
whereas it has nowadays nothing to do with python2-scapy. This error was
commited a long time ago, as the fork and its original had the same
name, and is now very conflictiong.

On debian, the manager of those packets is renaming python3-scapy into
python3-scapy3k, and making python3-scapy point to the same version as
python2-scapy, knowingly secdev/scapy. The fork will now points to
python3-scapy3k. This fixes all conflicts.

There are two options:
- perform the rename
- remove the phaethon/scapy and make python3-scapy points to secdev/scapy (no 
python3-scapy3k )

The real problem beeing that python3-scapy is not pointing to the
correct fork (it should be pointing to the original one: secdev/scapy).

More infos: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=898105

EDIT: sorry, I am brand new to the launchpad system, sorry if this
question notifies too many people / is in a wrong section

** Affects: scapy3k (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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