Future of Python 2 compat code in python-debian

[Stuart Prescott]

Hi folks

As you might have just noticed, we have now dropped the Python 2 module 
package (python-debian) from the archive. I've not yet disabled running the 
test suite under Python 2 on salsa.

The question is then what to do with Python 2 support and indeed also code 
that exists to work around limitations in Python 3.3 and 3.4.

We can do one of the following:

1) Continue to support python >= 2.7 and python3 >= 3.3. Leave the Python 2 
and 3.old code in there for the time being and leave the test suite running 
under Python 2 for as long as possible. However, the tests are run against 
Debian unstable and python-apt will soon be unavailable there.

2) Continue to support python >= 2.7 and python3 >= 3.3. Leave the Python 2 
and 3.old code there with disabled tests and when it breaks, shrug our 
shoulders

3) Declare support for python3 >= 3.5. Disable tests but only remove the 
legacy support whenever someone is spending time on a particular piece of code

4) Declare support for python3 >= 3.5. Actively remove old code now.

Thinking about releases we support, python3 in stretch and all supported 
Ubuntu releases is >= 3.5. Any backported packages that needed a newer python-
debian for some reason would also be using python3 >= 3.5 at this stage.

I am personally leaning towards 3 or 4.

Comments and suggestions most welcome.

Stuart

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