[bug#28676] [PATCH 2/4] gnu: Add python-linecache2.

[Cyril Roelandt]

On 10/03/2017 04:33 PM, Leo Famulari wrote:
> Can you add the details of what this is ported from, and what it's
> ported to? That will make it easier to know when we can remove it later
> on, once everything is updated. And the same for the other backport
> package.

So, both linecache2 and traceback2 are quite poorly documented in this
regard. They seem to be backports of linecache and traceback from Python
3 to Python 2.x, but both these modules existed in Python 2.x, so I'm
not exactly sure of what they do.

To be honest, I do not think anybody uses them in real life: they seem
to only be needed by unittest2 (which was written by the same author).
If it's OK with you, I'd rather leave the description as is, rather than
guessing. WDYT?


Cyril.