[Mageia-dev] Python Packaging Policy

[philippe makowski]

2011/7/13 Michael scherer <misc at zarb.org>:
>
> I would be in favor of treating python2 and python 3 as 2 differents languages.
> The rational is that :
> - we cannot garantee to have support for both
> -  we will likely have some module who would be updated only on
> python 3 sooner or later
> - we will need to do upgrade of package at different time, since both python2 and python3 are
> released at different time.
>
> So rather than a complex scheme that will confuse packagers, just consider they
> are separate, and use the almost same policy ( with s/python/python3/ )
And how do you manage package that support both P2 and P3 ?
(same source)

> Regarding a review of all package, that sound like daunting task :/
yes, but do you see another solution ?
we can have a priority list