On Aug 19, 2016, at 08:19 AM, Sandro Tosi wrote: >I got a feeling we are somehow discouraging the introduction of >python2 package in unstable (it was also discussed at the BoF).
Hi Sandro, Just to clarify my own opinion, for *libraries* which upstream supports both Python 2 and Python 3, we should provide both in Debian. It's also easy, so why not? :) I think we should discourage libraries where upstream only provides Python 2 versions, by trying to find bilingual alternatives. Sometimes this is unavoidable though. For *applications* which support both Python 2 and 3, we want to install them only as Python 3 applications, unless there's some overriding reason why we need to provide them for both. That gets into the ugly `nose2-3` situation, so let's really try to avoid that, and encourage `$python -m` style invocation where possible. Now let's talk about libraries for PyPy and Jython. :) Cheers, -Barry
