[Python-modules-team] Bug#985883: python3-pep8: Does not install /usr/bin/pep8

[Bastian Germann]

Control: severity -1 normal

On Sun, 28 Mar 2021 13:27:57 +1000 Russell Stuart 
<russell-debian at stuart.id.au> wrote:
> On 28/3/21 3:01 am, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote> On Thu, Mar 25, 2021 at 
> 07:30:14PM +1000, Russell Stuart wrote:>> Justification: renders package 
> unusable> >> python3-pep8 does not install the pep8 executable under 
> /bin or>> /usr/bin.>
> > There is no pep8 executable anymore, and the transitional package that
> > shipped a symlink from it to pycodestyle was dropped in 1.7.1-9 in 2020.
> > See https://pep8.readthedocs.io/ 
> 
> Fair enough.
> 
> For the benefit of people needing a clue like myself, adding a sentence 
> to the package description like "If you are looking the pep8 program, it 
> has been renamed to pycodestyle" would be helpful.

Also, a Recommends: pycodestyle would be helpful.

This is not exactly grave, so I am decreasing severity.