[Python-modules-team] Bug#762957: Bug#688551: python3-dateutil: Fresh release (2.1) is available for a while (since 2012-03-28)

Guido Günther agx at sigxcpu.org
Fri Sep 26 16:57:15 UTC 2014


tag 688551 +help
thanks

Hi,
On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 05:36:21PM +0200, Etienne Millon wrote:
> * Tobias Hansen <thansen at debian.org> [140926 15:20]:
> > since version 2.2 can be used for Python 2 and 3 I think this affects
> > also python-dateutil.
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm maintaining guessit that depends (in setup.py) on python-dateutil
> (see #762957, in CC). 
> 
> The new version depends on python-dateutil>=2.1, but the python 2 & 3
> versions are built by different source packages and have different
> version numbers: py2 is <2 and py3 is >=2. So the build fails.
> 
> One possibility is to patch the src:guessit in order to remove the
> bound, but since the newer versions of the py3 fork also work on
> python 2, it seems better to merge the two packages. I don't think
> it's too late for Jessie.

I'd be great if somebody could take care of this since I'm constantly
lacking the time. I'd be happy to move it over to pkg-python if that
helps.
Cheers,
 -- Guido



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