On Thu, Jul 2, 2015 at 10:03 PM, Robert Collins <robe...@robertcollins.net> wrote: > On 3 July 2015 at 11:44, Ian Cordasco <graffatcolmin...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Thu, Jul 2, 2015 at 6:40 PM, Ben Finney <ben+deb...@benfinney.id.au> >> wrote: >>> Barry Warsaw <ba...@debian.org> writes: >>> >>>> […] there's actually no reason to have a Python 3 version of enum in >>>> any version >= Python 3.4. […] >>> >>> Ian Cordasco <graffatcolmin...@gmail.com> writes: >>> >>>> Probably a silly question, but are other libraries like unittest2 also >>>> being packaged for python3? Another library is mock. That was included >>>> in the stdlib in 3.3. >>> >>> One consideration is: What code is written to be Python 2 and Python 3 >>> compatible from the same code base, which achieves this by importing a >>> module which is backported to Python 2? >>> >>> In some of my code I'm doing ‘import unit2’ to have features from that >>> library available in Python 2 code. >>> >>> Since those features are all in Python 3's standard library, the case >>> could be made that ‘python3-unit2’ is pointless; but against that is the >>> fact that a Python 3 ‘unit2’ package means that ‘import unit2’ will work >>> the same on both runtime versions. >>> >>> So I'd argue that ‘python3-mock’ and the like do have a place in Debian: >>> they make it easier to follow the recommended strategy of having a code >>> base run unchanged on Python2 and Python 3. >> >> Just to be clear, trying to use mock on 3.4 is thoroughly broken. If >> you can install python3-mock right now and use it in 3.4, then y'all >> must be carrying patches to make it work. The last 3.x version that >> mock works on is 3.3. >> >> That clearly doesn't have a place on a debian with python 3.5 as the >> version of python 3 included, unless you're planning on supporting >> packages for python 3.3 as well that will generate a numerous amount >> of bugs for you. > > See my prior mail. I will be backporting all the changes in mock from > the stdlib to the mock standalone lib in the near future. > > I have upload acls from Michael Foord for PyPI and I'm not afraid to > use them to fix it up - if you wanted to prep a narrow patch to fix > 3.4 then please do so here - https://github.com/testing-cabal/mock
Will do in the next couple weeks. I had chatted with Michael about it on Twitter and he expressed no interest in supporting it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-python-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/CAN-Kwu1cv9BxZWb3TAte_WXe2QEkabZe8ZOd32BAL3u8=4g...@mail.gmail.com
