[Python-modules-team] Mass-commit fix of lintian ancient-python-version-field

Joseph Herlant herlantj at gmail.com
Fri May 11 17:33:20 BST 2018


Hi,

On Fri, May 11, 2018, 1:10 AM Ondrej Novy <novy at ondrej.org> wrote:

> no problem, so just remove that file?
>
>
> https://github.com/onovy/onovy-mass/commit/2c24adf1ecd8fc934328f69c75b2b2d9256ee3c9
>
> Are we sure it's completely safe to remove it globally?
>

This file has been deprecated for about 10 years if I'm correct. It was
used in old versions of dh_python and dh_pysupport.
I will double-check the code of dh_python when I'm back at a computer but
it was already asked to remove it when we migrated to dh_python2 in 2015,
see: https://wiki.debian.org/Python/TransitionToDHPython2
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