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

[Guido Günther]

Hi Etienne,
On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 06:57:15PM +0200, Guido Günther wrote:
> tag 688551 +help
> thanks
> 
> Hi,
> On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 05:36:21PM +0200, Etienne Millon wrote:
> > * 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'd be great if somebody could take care of this since I'm constantly
> lacking the time. I'd be happy to move it over to pkg-python if that
> helps.
I've uploaded a python-dateutil that ships a python2 and python3
version to experimental. Could you check if it works for you?

I'm cc'ing the python3-dateutil maintainers on this one since we would
need to remove python3-dateutils from sid then.

Cheers,
 -- Guido