[Python-modules-team] Bug#887101: Your mail

Sandro Tosi morph at debian.org
Mon Nov 11 17:55:58 GMT 2019


> This was my plan, but I'm now in two minds about whether retaining the
> python2 versions for the release is wise or not, in terms of maintainer
> effort and in terms of the desirability of retaining python2 support for
> anything.
>
> These packages have pretty respectable popcon (~9k for ipython, ~4k for
> ipykernel), and I would imagine there is a certain amount of old
> scientific code which people would like to continue to use interatively,
> but it'll require multiple python2-only source packages;

there are still 22 rdeps for ipython
http://sandrotosi.me/debian/py2removal/ipython_1.svg and 6 for
ipykernel http://sandrotosi.me/debian/py2removal/python-ipykernel_1.svg

what other option do you see?

> What is your preferred option?

it's not about what is _my_ option, it's what's best for the other
debian packages currently depending on those pkgs

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