[Pkg-netmeasure-discuss] Bug#940699: scapy: Please drop the "Breaks" on python-scapy or restore the python 2 package

[Iain R. Learmonth]

Control: tags -1 + pending

Hi,

On 19/09/2019 08:35, Raphaël Hertzog wrote:
> But if you don't do that, please at least drop the "Breaks: python-scapy"
> and keep only the "Replaces: python-scapy", this one is enough to take
> over /usr/bin/scapy. Right now with the "Breaks: python-scapy", you can't
> keep around python-scapy if you want to install python3-scapy and that's
> really counter-productive for the transition on user's side. During the
> transition on their machine, they need both packages installed at the same
> time and this situation will last a while for Kali users since we have
> many reverse dependencies not yet updated.

I've prepared an upload that drops the Breaks: from the package. I am
not using the Python 2 version of the package, nor do I really want to
have to test that version. If you wanted to adopt the package,
especially as it has more rdeps in Kali than Debian, then I think that
would make sense and you'd be able to bring back the Python 2 package
yourself, and also better maintain it to support Kali better going
forward. If you choose to do this, please drop me from Uploaders and
also feel free to move the package into the security packaging team or
some other appropriate location.

Thanks,
Iain.