Bug#956698: lintian: package-from-other-python-variant exception: python-pip-whl

[Mattia Rizzolo <mattia@debian.org>]

On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 08:41:01AM -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote:
> The package python-pip-whl is a special case of a Python package built
> to work with either python or python3.  Currently python3-vertualenv
> gets the following lintian warning:
> 
> W: python3-virtualenv: python-package-depends-on-package-from-other-python-variant Depends: python-pip-whl
> 
> While this is a great warning in general, in this case it's wrong.
> Would it be OK to special case python-pip-whl and have it not trigger
> this check?

I would wager that this is the exact use case for an override?

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