On Sat, 2018-08-04 at 22:25 +0200, Miro Hrončok wrote: > Hi, > > an interesting discussion came up in the Python Maint team recently, > about not shipping python3-debug and python2-debug. > > On the Chesterton's fence principle [0], I'd would like to know why > are > we building and shipping them before we have a discussion about > their > removal to save build time and remove packaging cruft. > > Anyone has an idea? Those packages are meant to debug Python, yet > all > people I know who do that, build they own Python for that purpose > (often > from the master branch). I think I used debug builds for this feature : https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/EasierPythonDebugging https://wiki.python.org/moin/DebuggingWithGdb > I tracked down the introduction of the python-debug package in this > commit [1] by David Malcolm (CCed) @ 8 years ago, added in Fedora 14 > shortly before upgrade to 2.7. Yet the commit message lacks > rationale. > > [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Chesterton%27s_fence > [1] > https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/python/c/f020abd35954981b383884105 > dad425ba9c6637a > > Thanks, > -- > Miro Hrončok > -- > Phone: +420777974800 > IRC: mhroncok > _______________________________________________ > python-devel mailing list -- python-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe send an email to python-devel-leave@lists.fedoraprojec > t.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelin > es > List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/python-d > evel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/message/AK6HE4YL6VAU2ZW4XPYWI2MPDQDVAAEP > / -- Sérgio M. B. _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/message/HNNQX6YXFZLCPZ5RVNK6J7ZTOLS6OOXJ/
