On September 2, 2019 4:00:53 AM UTC, Sandro Tosi <mo...@debian.org> wrote:
>> I would just stop building these. And if the reverse dependencies
>have a
>> py2removal bug itself, then comment in these issues that the
>> suggested/recommended package gets removed. If they don't have a
>py2removal
>> bug, please file the bugs for these packages.
>
>i dont believe this is a sensible approach; for example i maintain
>python-mpmath, that would be rendered uninstallable the moment
>python-gmp2 is removed. Now, python-mpmath has 3 external
>reverse-dependencies (just to name a couple, sagemath and simpy) that
>would be then uninstallable, and so on and so forth for all their
>rdeps.
>
>Martin, i think for now the only option is to keep the py2 packages
>around until we're ready to drop them (ie they have 0 rdeps).
I just checked on packages.d.o and according to it, python-gmp2 is a Suggests.
Suggests aren't installed with packages. Unless I'm missing something,
python-mpmath wouldn't become uninstallable.
IIRC, policy doesn't even require Suggests packages to exist.
I agree about keeping packages as long as they have reverse Recommends, but I
think Suggests is going too far (although AIUI, missing Recommends don't make
the package uninstallable either).
Scott K
