[py3porters-devel] Removing some python3-* packages

[Barry Warsaw]

Just a quick follow-up I've been meaning to send.

On Jul 02, 2015, at 03:55 PM, Barry Warsaw wrote:

>As part of the 3.5 test rebuild I noticed an incompatibility with
>python3-enum, which I reported upstream.  The response was: there's actually
>no reason to have a Python 3 version of enum in any version >= Python 3.4.
>Since that's all we have now, maybe it makes more sense to just remove the
>python3-enum package from Debian.

Which is what I'm going to do.  I've interacted with upstream and there's just
no reason for us to be shipping a Python 3 version of enum34, especially in
Stretch given our current and future supported Python 3 versions.  I'll be
uploading a new version of enum34 that deletes python3-enum34 asap.

py3porters, please keep this in mind and don't add it back.  It'll ftbfs
anyway and I'll close any related bug as won't fix.

In general, I think we'll just have to take similar situations on a
case-by-case basis.  For packages which provide additional functionality not
in stdlib Python 3, it may still make sense to provide a python3- version of
the package.

Cheers,
-Barry
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