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

[Etienne Millon]

* 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 believe that the correct course of action would be build the latest
2.x version from src:python-dateutil (including the python3-dateutil
binary package), then request removal of src:python3-dateutil.

Guido, if you don't have time to do that, the Python Modules Team
(including myself) can help with that. What do you think?

Cheers

-- 
Etienne Millon