Re: Summary of python transition problems

2003-10-13 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 10:55:54AM +1000, Donovan Baarda wrote: On Wed, 2003-10-08 at 03:28, Matthias Klose wrote: It does help for python applications, which depend on an explicit python version. I did not count packages with a 'python2.3 (= 2.3)' dependency. I would argue that using a

Re: Summary of python transition problems

2003-10-13 Thread Matthias Klose
Colin Watson writes: The only reason to put a version on a pythonX.Y dependency would be if you know there was a particular version of pythonX.Y that your package doesn't work with. The versioned dependency is probably generated automatically by dpkg-shlibdeps: $ cat

Re: Summary of python transition problems

2003-10-13 Thread Matthias Klose
Colin Watson writes: On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 07:28:23PM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: Colin Watson writes: For what it's worth, I think a python-defaults source package or some such would help: at the moment there are several packages needlessly stalled on python2.3, even though their

Re: Summary of python transition problems

2003-10-13 Thread Donovan Baarda
On Tue, 2003-10-14 at 04:29, Matthias Klose wrote: Colin Watson writes: On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 07:28:23PM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: Colin Watson writes: For what it's worth, I think a python-defaults source package or some such would help: at the moment there are several packages

Re: Summary of python transition problems

2003-10-04 Thread Donovan Baarda
On Sun, 2003-10-05 at 02:55, Matthias Klose wrote: Donovan Baarda writes: On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 02:28:52PM +0200, Matthias Urlichs wrote: Hi, Colin Watson wrote: [...] The second problem is is when we get python (2.4), a new python2.3 package will need to be released just to fix the

Re: Summary of python transition problems

2003-10-01 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 10:47:09PM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: Missing builds == * libapache2-mod-python: powerpc already asked for rebuild ... no reaction. I could take a look at this in the next day or two, if no one else bites. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer

Re: Summary of python transition problems

2003-10-01 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 10:48:11PM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: Colin Watson writes: Buggy packages == gnue-* is missing here. No; gnue-common in testing depended on python2.1, not python. The version in unstable should certainly be fixed, but it's not holding up testing. --

Re: Summary of python transition problems

2003-09-30 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Matthias Klose [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003-09-29 22:47]: but one of it's build-dep's is listed as: -gimp1.2 (1.2.3-2.4 to -) * Maintainer: Ben Gertzfield * Valid candidate so probably, it doesn't make sense to move it to testing, if gimp1.2 is removed. Actually, gimp1.2 still

Re: Summary of python transition problems

2003-09-30 Thread Josip Rodin
On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 10:47:09PM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: * gimp-python: #207304 automake problem, which it seems I failed to fix. but one of it's build-dep's is listed as: -gimp1.2 (1.2.3-2.4 to -) * Maintainer: Ben Gertzfield * Valid candidate so probably, it

Re: Summary of python transition problems

2003-09-30 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 02:02:38PM +1000, Martin Michlmayr wrote: * Matthias Klose [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003-09-29 22:47]: but one of it's build-dep's is listed as: -gimp1.2 (1.2.3-2.4 to -) * Maintainer: Ben Gertzfield * Valid candidate so probably, it doesn't make sense to

Re: Summary of python transition problems

2003-09-29 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 03:21:42PM -, Alastair wrote: From: Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Missing builds == * newt: hppa Is this an error /out of date? From the archive, it appears that hppa is up-to-date on newt for both sarge and sid. Slightly out of date, yes,

Re: Summary of python transition problems

2003-09-29 Thread Mikhail Sobolev
On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 11:49:03AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: [ a list of packages skipped ] is libmetakit-python missing from this list for a reason? -- Misha pgpJaTCkadaOr.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Summary of python transition problems

2003-09-29 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 12:16:37PM +0100, Mikhail Sobolev wrote: is libmetakit-python missing from this list for a reason? It depends on python2.2, which isn't a problem as far as testing's concerned. Packages depending on 'python (= 2.2), python ( 2.3)' are problematic. -- Colin Watson

Re: Summary of python transition problems

2003-09-29 Thread Donovan Baarda
(cc'ed to -release for general information) Hi folks, Here's a summary of the problems currently blocking python2.3 from testing. It may be slightly incomplete, but I think I've got most of them. Buggy packages == [...] what about python2.3 having Depends: python (= 2.3)

Re: Summary of python transition problems

2003-09-29 Thread Matthias Klose
Colin Watson writes: (cc'ed to -release for general information) Hi folks, Here's a summary of the problems currently blocking python2.3 from testing. It may be slightly incomplete, but I think I've got most of them. fyi, yesterday I updated the list from Joss, see

Re: Summary of python transition problems

2003-09-29 Thread Matthias Klose
Colin Watson writes: On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 11:29:12PM +1000, Donovan Baarda wrote: what about python2.3 having Depends: python (= 2.3) This is IMHO a policy violation. python (2.3) should depend on python2.3, python2.3 should not depend on python. It's playing havoc with my mixed

Re: Summary of python transition problems

2003-09-29 Thread Sebastien Bacher
Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: * python-gnome2: s390 Due to #212854 on gnome-vfs2 ... I'll probably NMU gnome-vfs2 soon if Takuo KITAME doesn't fix it. Cheers, Sebastien Bacher

Re: Summary of python transition problems

2003-09-29 Thread Donovan Baarda
On Tue, 2003-09-30 at 06:50, Matthias Klose wrote: Colin Watson writes: On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 11:29:12PM +1000, Donovan Baarda wrote: what about python2.3 having Depends: python (= 2.3) This is IMHO a policy violation. python (2.3) should depend on python2.3, python2.3 should not