On Sat, Jul 01, 2023 at 06:27:53PM +0100, Sean Whitton wrote:
> On Thu 29 Jun 2023 at 03:21PM +02, Alexandre Detiste wrote:
> > The python3-six library is one of the last remaining crumbs
> > of the lengthy python2->3 migration.
> >
> > Please overide it to oldlibs so a _passive_ warning is generated
> > by DebCheck on the DD dashboard other linters could also pick it up.
> >
> > Hhere is one for example there's on such warning for mrrescue:
> >     https://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=alexandre.detiste%40gmail.com
> >
> > I also took the time to triage some packages I care about
> > but have no plan to fill an _active_ MBF now.
> >      
> > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?tag=python3-six-removal;users=python3-...@packages.debian.org
> 
> Colin, can you confirm?

  $ grep-aptavail --count -wFDepends python3-six
  538

This still seems like an awful lot, and a lot of the dependencies are
going to be in upstream code that Debian maintainers can't directly do
anything about.  I suppose I won't veto it, but it does seem a bit
excessively noisy at this point.

-- 
Colin Watson (he/him)                              [cjwat...@debian.org]

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