Bug#938550: spyder: Python2 removal in sid/bullseye

[PICCA Frederic-Emmanuel]

Hello

> Hi Frédéric, I prepared spyder (and spyder-kernels) for python2 removal.
>  The removal of cloudpickle forces us to do it earlier than we otherwise
> might have.

no problem for me :), the faster we get rid of Python2, the better.

> With spyder, it made sense to me to keep spyder as the main binary
> package, relegating spyder3 to a transitional dependency package. I set
> /usr/bin/spyder as a symlink to spyder3 (manpage likewise). Let me know
> if you're happy with that and we can go ahead with the upload.
> Otherwise I can swap it to keep spyder3 as the binary package.


I think that you should set the section, oldlibs for spyder3 if this is a transitional package.

then you can upload.

Cheers

Fred