sorry, I never replied to that email. On 10.06.2018 13:59, Piotr Ożarowski wrote: > [Matthias Klose, 2018-06-08] >> from my point of view this doesn't address: >> >> - being able to de-install the python command for buster, if >> people don't use it. Most dependencies are auto-generated, so >> these could be replaced by dependencies on python2. I would >> assume that the majority of users won't have to install the >> python package anymore, unless they are doing python2 >> development. > > how about generating dependencies on python2.7 and moving > pycompile/pyclean there as well (this also solves pre-dependency issue) > >> - Not having a python package in bullseye (buster+1), but a >> python2 package doesn't point to any "default" anymore. Many >> users are installing just python, because it's the unversioned >> package. So make it clear that this is another version, and >> with having the choice of python2 and python3, most users will >> install python3. > > same here > > additional question: why do you need for all that python2-doc, > python2-minimal, python2-dev, libpython2-dev, libpython2-stdlib, > python2-dbg and libpython2-dbg binary packages?
yes, moving the symlinks to the 2.7 packages would be an option as well. But I don't see any difference why one or the other should be the preferred option.
