Hi all, Prompted by the previous discussions on this list about python2 on the desktop and build-depends out of main, I looked around a bit at what was keeping various python2 packages still in main. I was surprised to find that the Ubuntu 'development' seed includes a large number of python-* modules seeded - 23, to be precise.
python-adns python-cddb python-egenix-mxproxy python-egenix-mxstack python-egenix-mxtexttools python-egenix-mxtools python-epydoc python-gd python-genetic python-htmlgen python-jabber python-dictclient python-librdf python-ldap python-pisock python-pyao python-pyvorbis python-simpletal python-xmpp python-libxml2 python-libxslt1 python-pygresql python-gpod These packages were all seeded in 2007 or earlier. A number of packages have by now been replaced in the seed by their python3 equivalents, but the above list of packages have no python3 equivalent in the archive. Given that developing in python2 is not generally something that we want to promote at this point, I would argue that any of these that don't have replacements in python3 should be dropped from the seed instead. And if some of this functionality exists for python3 but under a different name, we can swap them out. E.g., I just noticed python3-lxml replaces both python-libxml2 and python-libxslt1. Comments, objections? -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ [email protected] [email protected]
signature.asc
Description: Digital signature
-- ubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
