Re: Python policy proposed changes

2005-10-18 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mardi 18 octobre 2005 à 02:57 +0200, Martin v. Löwis a écrit : Josselin Mouette wrote: Apart from a typo and the FSF address, the changes are about which packaging variants are mandated, recommending to provide only one python-foo package for each module, except when depending

Re: Python policy proposed changes

2005-10-18 Thread Martin v. Löwis
To what cost? How many gigabytes of mirror space and bandwidth are we wasting with python2.X-libprout stuff nobody ever uses? I don't know. What is the answer to this question? I wouldn't expect it to be more than 1GiB per mirror, though, likely much less. On i386, for example, the useless

Re: Python policy proposed changes

2005-10-18 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mardi 18 octobre 2005 à 10:24 +0200, Martin v. Löwis a écrit : Even in a situation like the current one, when we're stuck with 2.3 as the default when there's 2.4 available, there are only a few python packages which actually need the 2.4 version. What do you mean, actually need?

Re: Python policy proposed changes

2005-10-18 Thread Donovan Baarda
On Tue, 2005-10-18 at 08:23, Josselin Mouette wrote: Le mardi 18 octobre 2005 à 02:57 +0200, Martin v. Löwis a écrit : Josselin Mouette wrote: [...] But I'm not talking about python-gtk here, I'm talking about those hundreds of modules actually used by zero or one binary packages. Do we need