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

[Drew Parsons]

On 2019-10-15 03:40, PICCA Frederic-Emmanuel wrote:
> 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.
> 

Thanks Fréd, I'll do that.

Drew