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authorMaxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>2023-03-28 22:40:32 -0400
committerMaxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>2023-03-28 22:40:32 -0400
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Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/master' into staging
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@@ -776,9 +776,8 @@ the word @code{python}.
Some modules are compatible with only one version of Python, others with
both. If the package Foo is compiled with Python 3, we name it
@code{python-foo}. If it is compiled with Python 2, we name it
-@code{python2-foo}. Packages should be added when they are necessary;
-we don't add Python 2 variants of the package unless we are going to use
-them.
+@code{python2-foo}. Python 2 packages are being removed from the
+distribution; please do no not submit any new Python 2 packages.
If a project already contains the word @code{python}, we drop this;
for instance, the module python-dateutil is packaged under the names