On 4.8.2018 22:25, 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 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/f020abd35954981b383884105dad425ba9c6637a
Thank you all, we'll keep them.
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