Re: Bug#943666: python3: Update Python Policy for removal of the Python 2 stack

2019-11-03 Thread Matthias Klose
On 03.11.19 15:09, Neil Williams wrote: On Sun, 3 Nov 2019 15:00:17 +0100 Matthias Klose wrote: [discussing this outside the bug report on the ML] On 03.11.19 14:39, Neil Williams wrote: Actually, that's a good catch. I was mixing up the defaults package with the general advice on python3 mi

Re: Bug#943666: python3: Update Python Policy for removal of the Python 2 stack

2019-11-03 Thread Neil Williams
On Sun, 3 Nov 2019 15:00:17 +0100 Matthias Klose wrote: > [discussing this outside the bug report on the ML] > > On 03.11.19 14:39, Neil Williams wrote: > > Actually, that's a good catch. I was mixing up the defaults package > > with the general advice on python3 migration to not remove > > pyth

Re: Bug#943666: python3: Update Python Policy for removal of the Python 2 stack

2019-11-03 Thread Matthias Klose
[discussing this outside the bug report on the ML] On 03.11.19 14:39, Neil Williams wrote: Actually, that's a good catch. I was mixing up the defaults package with the general advice on python3 migration to not remove python-foo-doc just to rename it to python3-foo-doc. where did you read that

Re: Python module packages that don't bytecompile on installation?

2019-11-03 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 11/3/19 10:27 AM, Matthias Klose wrote: > On 03.11.19 02:20, Paul Wise wrote: >> On Sat, Nov 2, 2019 at 6:04 PM Matthias Klose wrote: >>> Python2 >>> removal, or the introduction of Python 3.8.  3.8 also offers a >>> central directory >>> for bc files, so that's maybe another thing to look at, b

Re: Python module packages that don't bytecompile on installation?

2019-11-03 Thread Matthias Klose
On 03.11.19 02:20, Paul Wise wrote: On Sat, Nov 2, 2019 at 6:04 PM Matthias Klose wrote: At this point I'd ignore any Python2 related package, and concentrate on Python3 stuff only. Yes, I was referring only to python3-* module packages. Byte compilation is an optimization, speeding up a pr