[Bug 1901295] Re: python3-chardet breaks install of python-chardet

2020-10-29 Thread Julien Olivier
Hi Paride, I've just reported this bug for the record, and with the ope that it could help other people with the same problem. As to me, I have already found a workaround: my Python2 doesn't really depend on python-chardet, but on python-requests (which itself depends on python-chardet). So i "fix

[Bug 1901295] Re: python3-chardet breaks install of python-chardet

2020-10-29 Thread Julien Olivier
Sorry for the typos: I meant "with the Hope", and "my Python2 application doesn't really depend on python-chardet". -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1901295 Title: python3-chardet break

[Bug 1901295] Re: python3-chardet breaks install of python-chardet

2020-10-29 Thread Paride Legovini
Hi Julien and thanks for filing this bug. I think your suggestion could work in principle, however I doubt it will be implemented in practice. It would mean modifying a package to support an unsupported package and more in general an unsupported setup. Splitting the package in Debian would requir

[Bug 1901295] Re: python3-chardet breaks install of python-chardet

2020-10-28 Thread Julien Olivier
PS: just to be clear: what I really mean is that, if python3-chardet was split into a "python3-chardet" (with only the module), and a "chardet" package (with only the binaries / manpage), it would then be possible for a third party to provide a "python-chardet" without the binaries / manpages that

[Bug 1901295] Re: python3-chardet breaks install of python-chardet

2020-10-28 Thread Julien Olivier
I analyzed the two packages and I think I found the reason why they break each other: both contain /usr/bin/chardet and /usr/bin/chardetect (as well as the associated man pages). So, a possible solution could be remove those two binaries, and their man pages from both python-chardet and python3-ch

[Bug 1901295] Re: python3-chardet breaks install of python-chardet

2020-10-27 Thread Christian Ehrhardt 
Maintainers are free to remove python2 if there are no reverse dependencies left for the obvious unsupportability. This happened here in [1] to resolve [2] There also is no installation candidate left in a recent archive. Maybe replaces/breaks was a bit too much (as users like you could be happy

[Bug 1901295] Re: python3-chardet breaks install of python-chardet

2020-10-27 Thread Christian Ehrhardt 
I can confirm the behavior ** Changed in: python3-chardet (Ubuntu) Status: New => Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1901295 Title: python3-chardet breaks install of pyt