Re: lilypond and python

2006-07-30 Thread Loïc Minier
On Sat, Jul 29, 2006, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: Actually, I didn't make those packaging mistakes; the previous maintainer did. « The previous maintainer did the mistakes is the refrain of people who don't want to fix their packages. » :-P You seem to think this is a battle, in which

Re: lilypond and python

2006-07-30 Thread Loïc Minier
On Sat, Jul 29, 2006, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: So what? If you know how to fix that issue, then why don't you upload a package based on Pierre's work with the fix? Why don't you do it RIGHT NOW and get DONE with this madness? I don't know a fix for that issue except to use Guile 1.8.

Re: lilypond and python

2006-07-30 Thread Pierre Habouzit
Le dim 30 juillet 2006 07:21, Thomas Bushnell BSG a écrit : No, it requires *both* the newer Python pure speculation, upstream *AND* users on the list, claim it works with python2.3. so stop with that, it's tiresome. *and* the newer Guile. In another mail [EMAIL PROTECTED], you said:

Re: lilypond and python

2006-07-30 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Loïc Minier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sat, Jul 29, 2006, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: So what? If you know how to fix that issue, then why don't you upload a package based on Pierre's work with the fix? Why don't you do it RIGHT NOW and get DONE with this madness? I don't know a fix for

Re: lilypond and python

2006-07-30 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Loïc Minier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: When this thread started, you had decided to bind the fix with the new upstream release and you had blocked the new upstream release with the switch of the default Python version. Now you're also blocking this new upstream release with a major new

Re: lilypond and python

2006-07-30 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Pierre Habouzit [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Le dim 30 juillet 2006 07:21, Thomas Bushnell BSG a écrit : No, it requires *both* the newer Python pure speculation, upstream *AND* users on the list, claim it works with python2.3. so stop with that, it's tiresome. This is incorrect.

Re: lilypond and python

2006-07-30 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Loïc Minier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I wrote the default python version, and I maintain that my original fix would work with the new upstream release. Your original fix would not succesfully apply as a patch to the new upstream version. It's also, as it happens, the *wrong* way to make the

Re: lilypond and python

2006-07-29 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Josselin Mouette [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Le jeudi 27 juillet 2006 à 16:38 -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG a écrit : Pierre Habouzit [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: it seems that guile 1.6.8 is buggy. people reported to have build lilypond with guile 1.6.7 and/or guile-1.8 correctly. And I

Re: lilypond and python

2006-07-29 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Loïc Minier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This is the stupidiest thing you ever did, because everyone had to look at your handling of your packages. Everybody saw your gcc-4.1 RC with a patch which you're blocking until the new upstream release. Everybody saw the awful packaging mistakes you

Re: lilypond and python

2006-07-28 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le jeudi 27 juillet 2006 à 16:38 -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG a écrit : Pierre Habouzit [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: it seems that guile 1.6.8 is buggy. people reported to have build lilypond with guile 1.6.7 and/or guile-1.8 correctly. And I suppose *HERE* is the real problem, which you

Re: lilypond and python

2006-07-28 Thread Loïc Minier
On Thu, Jul 27, 2006, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: I believe the patch you sent was not against the current upstream I am not the lilypond maintainer, I don't want to have to download an upstream tarball or prepare a CVS snapshot or whatever for a package I'm not interested in. The

Re: lilypond and python

2006-07-27 Thread Loïc Minier
On Wed, Jul 26, 2006, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: It is very confusing to me why lilypond should need either python-support or python-central at all. Can you explain? Actually, it doesn't, I was wrong. I thought some sort of private or public module was built, but the only bits seem to live

Re: lilypond and python

2006-07-27 Thread Pierre Habouzit
Le jeu 27 juillet 2006 05:02, Thomas Bushnell BSG a écrit : Stephen Gran [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What is this, solution number 4 for Mr. BSG's complaints? I am almost beginning to believe that he is more interested in complaining than just fixing the problem. Solution? How about this,

Re: lilypond and python

2006-07-27 Thread Loïc Minier
On Wed, Jul 26, 2006, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: I believe the patch you sent was not against the current upstream release, unless you are referring to something different. I am not the lilypond maintainer, I don't want to have to download an upstream tarball or prepare a CVS snapshot or

Re: lilypond and python

2006-07-27 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Pierre Habouzit [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: it seems that guile 1.6.8 is buggy. people reported to have build lilypond with guile 1.6.7 and/or guile-1.8 correctly. And I suppose *HERE* is the real problem, which you failed to spot, because you didn't even TRIED to. I had that problem 1

Re: lilypond and python

2006-07-27 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Loïc Minier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, Jul 26, 2006, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: I believe the patch you sent was not against the current upstream release, unless you are referring to something different. I am not the lilypond maintainer, I don't want to have to download an upstream

Re: lilypond and python

2006-07-26 Thread Pierre Habouzit
Le mer 26 juillet 2006 03:19, Thomas Bushnell BSG a écrit : Matthew Garrett [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Running sed costs you lots of time? Come on. I can understand your irritation at the lack of information about how the python transition is going, but it really shouldn't take you any

Re: lilypond and python

2006-07-26 Thread Loïc Minier
On Wed, Jul 26, 2006, Martin Michlmayr wrote: You could just add an explicit dependency on python2.4 and do a s/python/python2.4/ over lilypond. For which I've sent a patch already. -- Loïc Minier [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: lilypond and python

2006-07-26 Thread Pierre Habouzit
Le mer 26 juillet 2006 08:41, Thomas Bushnell BSG a écrit : Pierre Habouzit [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It takes about eight hours per compilation attempt on my available hardware running unstable. oh, and you really need to watch all the lines of the compilation during the build ?

Re: lilypond and python

2006-07-26 Thread Loïc Minier
On Tue, Jul 25, 2006, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: Some have suggested patching lilypond to call python2.4, depending on python2.4, and not bothering with python-central and pyversions and such. No, this is still required, but I didn't want to force a choice between python-support or

Re: lilypond and python

2006-07-26 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Loïc Minier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, Jul 25, 2006, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: Some have suggested patching lilypond to call python2.4, depending on python2.4, and not bothering with python-central and pyversions and such. No, this is still required, but I didn't want to force a

Re: lilypond and python

2006-07-26 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Loïc Minier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, Jul 26, 2006, Martin Michlmayr wrote: You could just add an explicit dependency on python2.4 and do a s/python/python2.4/ over lilypond. For which I've sent a patch already. I believe the patch you sent was not against the current upstream

Re: lilypond and python

2006-07-26 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 07:25:59PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: Adeodato Simó [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: - From http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2006/07/msg00684.html: But I don't alas, have the time to spend on a workaround patch myself, which will (supposedly) become

Re: lilypond and python

2006-07-26 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Wouter Verhelst said: On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 07:25:59PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: This is incorrect; I write and read very quickly. Oh, come on. sed -i -e '1s/python[0-9\.]*/python2.4/' $(find . -name '*.py') Don't tell me it takes you more than

Re: lilypond and python

2006-07-26 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Wouter Verhelst [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Oh, come on. sed -i -e '1s/python[0-9\.]*/python2.4/' $(find . -name '*.py') Don't tell me it takes you more than half a minute to come up with something like that. And don't tell me you can write a mail such as the one I'm replying to in less than

Re: lilypond and python

2006-07-26 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Stephen Gran [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What is this, solution number 4 for Mr. BSG's complaints? I am almost beginning to believe that he is more interested in complaining than just fixing the problem. Solution? How about this, if I apply that recipe and try to compile, you pay me $100

Re: lilypond and python

2006-07-26 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Stephen Gran [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What is this, solution number 4 for Mr. BSG's complaints? I am almost beginning to believe that he is more interested in complaining than just fixing the problem. And the gratuitous rudeness is apalling. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: lilypond and python

2006-07-25 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Loïc Minier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This would only fix problems in experimental, lilypond is currently not releasable, so imaginating that the Python switch would not happen, we would end up without lilypond. In my opinion, the current lilypond in Debian is not suitable for release,

Re: lilypond and python

2006-07-25 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
Em Tue, 25 Jul 2006 01:56:26 -0700 Thomas Bushnell BSG [EMAIL PROTECTED] escreveu: In my opinion, the current lilypond in Debian is not suitable for release, even with the existing problems solved. It would not be appropriate to release such an old version in etch, and if nothing happens

Re: lilypond and python

2006-07-25 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 01:56:26AM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: Loïc Minier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This would only fix problems in experimental, lilypond is currently not releasable, so imaginating that the Python switch would not happen, we would end up without lilypond. In

Re: lilypond and python

2006-07-25 Thread Aurélien GÉRÔME
Hi, On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 01:56:26AM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: In my opinion, the current lilypond in Debian is not suitable for release, even with the existing problems solved. It would not be appropriate to release such an old version in etch, and if nothing happens with python

Re: lilypond and python

2006-07-25 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Have you told the maintainers of alml and songwrite (reverse-depends of lilypond) about this? It wouldn't be fair to them to find out at the last minute before the etch release that their packages won't be releasable because lilypond wasn't ready,

Re: lilypond and python

2006-07-25 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Gustavo Noronha Silva [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: That said, I would also like to see python-defaults upgraded to python2.4, and can't see a reason for much more delay. Don't bother asking; they don't answer questions. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: lilypond and python

2006-07-25 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Aurélien GÉRÔME [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This is utterly unacceptable. What do you do of the reverse-dependencies? If you are not capable of dealing with a package that you are supposed to maintain, you should O: it or RFA: it, instead of cornering users. That is irresponsible as a Debian

Re: lilypond and python

2006-07-25 Thread Martin Michlmayr
2.6.3 was not acceptible. You could just add an explicit dependency on python2.4 and do a s/python/python2.4/ over lilypond. -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: lilypond and python

2006-07-25 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You could just add an explicit dependency on python2.4 and do a s/python/python2.4/ over lilypond. So, will the python change happen? Maybe instead of beating me up for not knowing what is the best use of my time, the python team could be encouraged

Re: lilypond and python

2006-07-25 Thread Pierre Habouzit
Le mer 26 juillet 2006 01:22, Thomas Bushnell BSG a écrit : Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You could just add an explicit dependency on python2.4 and do a s/python/python2.4/ over lilypond. So, will the python change happen? Maybe instead of beating me up for not knowing what

Re: lilypond and python

2006-07-25 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
-Version through pycentral) ask for a 2.4+ python version. As I have said multiple times, lilypond now requires python 2.4 to work correctly. You're telling me that if I use debian/pyversions and the rest of that, whatever it is, then lilypond scripts and user code which depends on python 2.4

Re: lilypond and python

2006-07-25 Thread Pierre Habouzit
(either through debian/pyversions + pysupport or XS-Python-Version through pycentral) ask for a 2.4+ python version. As I have said multiple times, lilypond now requires python 2.4 to work correctly. You're telling me that if I use debian/pyversions and the rest of that, whatever

Re: lilypond and python

2006-07-25 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Pierre Habouzit [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: it has been said numerous time, that you just need to sed the shebang of those scripts, such modifications are often used in python packaging, and is easy to do. Right, the question is whether this is a long-term change or a short-term change?

Re: lilypond and python

2006-07-25 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
Em Tue, 25 Jul 2006 16:53:47 -0700 Thomas Bushnell BSG [EMAIL PROTECTED] escreveu: As I have said multiple times, lilypond now requires python 2.4 to work correctly. You're telling me that if I use debian/pyversions and the rest of that, whatever it is, then lilypond scripts and user code

Re: lilypond and python

2006-07-25 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Gustavo Noronha Silva [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You're telling me that if I use debian/pyversions and the rest of that, whatever it is, then lilypond scripts and user code which depends on python 2.4 will automagically get it even though it uses #! on ordinary python? This sounds like it's

Re: lilypond and python

2006-07-25 Thread Matthew Garrett
Thomas Bushnell BSG [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't think you understand. A workaround costs me lots of time to get in place. I'm perfectly clear about how to go about installing a workaround. The question is, is the work worth it? Running sed costs you lots of time? Come on. I can

Re: lilypond and python

2006-07-25 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Matthew Garrett [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Running sed costs you lots of time? Come on. I can understand your irritation at the lack of information about how the python transition is going, but it really shouldn't take you any length of time at all to change things to reference 2.4

Re: lilypond and python

2006-07-25 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Matthew Garrett [Wed, 26 Jul 2006 02:14:51 +0100]: Thomas Bushnell BSG [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't think you understand. A workaround costs me lots of time to get in place. I'm perfectly clear about how to go about installing a workaround. The question is, is the work worth it?

Re: lilypond and python

2006-07-25 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Adeodato Simó [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: - From http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2006/07/msg00684.html: But I don't alas, have the time to spend on a workaround patch myself, which will (supposedly) become obselete very quickly. The sad conclusion that, with this sentence

Re: lilypond and python

2006-07-25 Thread Miles Bader
Adeodato Simó [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am completely serious: all of the mails quoted below stress me profoundly Have you tried decaf...? -Miles -- We have met the enemy, and he is us. -- Pogo

Re: lilypond and python

2006-07-23 Thread Miles Bader
Loïc Minier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: - make install is called with prefix=debian/tmp/..., this is usually wrong Well, some packages screw things up of course, but in a package following the GNU coding standards (whence prefix comes) the Makefile is supposed to separate install-time actions

Re: lilypond and python

2006-07-22 Thread Loïc Minier
Hi again, On Fri, Jul 21, 2006, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: Unfortunately, the patch is not against the new upstream lilypond. As I suggested in #357057, I suggest you copy the sed snippet and go on with the Python transition with a 2.4 build requirement. This will work even after

Re: lilypond and python

2006-07-22 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Fri, 21 Jul 2006, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: Matthias Klose [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: experimental has a python-defaults pointing to 2.4 When did this happen? Is there some reason you didn't reply to my status-requests with this information? Why are you trying to keep things secret

Re: lilypond and python

2006-07-21 Thread Loïc Minier
On Tue, Jul 18, 2006, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: So, let me make plain: I am entirely happy to accept a workaround patch for lilypond's current upstream stable release that will make it build and use python 2.4 even when that is not installed as python. If such a functional patch appears and

Re: lilypond and python

2006-07-21 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Matthias Klose [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: well, there's curently only one person spreading lies and fud about python packaging, so please don't talk about lies as well. I'm still testing uprades and fixing upgrade issues. experimental has a python-defaults pointing to 2.4, so you can prepare

Re: lilypond and python

2006-07-21 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Loïc Minier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, Jul 18, 2006, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: So, let me make plain: I am entirely happy to accept a workaround patch for lilypond's current upstream stable release that will make it build and use python 2.4 even when that is not installed as python.

Re: lilypond and python

2006-07-21 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Matthias Klose [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: experimental has a python-defaults pointing to 2.4 When did this happen? Is there some reason you didn't reply to my status-requests with this information? Why are you trying to keep things secret from me? Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: lilypond and python

2006-07-20 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi Matthias, On Thu, 20 Jul 2006, Matthias Klose wrote: well, there's curently only one person spreading lies and fud about python packaging, so please don't talk about lies as well. Please stop ranting against Josselin, in particular if you have nothing precise/factual to criticize. You're

Re: lilypond and python

2006-07-19 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mardi 18 juillet 2006 à 15:12 -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG a écrit : I had been assuming that the python team was telling me the truth when they said that python-defaults would be updated to 2.4 very soon. Please, there is nothing like a python team. -- .''`. Josselin Mouette

Re: lilypond and python

2006-07-19 Thread Matthias Klose
. pending doesn't imply will be fixed in x days. Matthias Thomas Bushnell BSG writes: I have been criticized for not uploading the new lilypond packages and being quite a bit behind the public releases. Unfortunately, the current lilypond requires python 2.4, and expects to call it as python

lilypond and python

2006-07-18 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
I have been criticized for not uploading the new lilypond packages and being quite a bit behind the public releases. Unfortunately, the current lilypond requires python 2.4, and expects to call it as python, not just in the build process, but at run time. I had been assuming that the python