On 10 Dec 2001, Matthias Klose typed: ] Anthony Towns writes: ] > Dropping python1.5 doesn't seem a particularly clever thing to do. ] If we don't have any python1.5 dependencies, why not?
Because users will have no way of having both 1.5 and 2.1 on the same machine as the woody python2.1 package conflicts with the potato python-base (1.5) package. If one could upgrade from potato to woody, keeping the potato 1.5 package, and installing the woody 2.1 packages then there would be no need to keep 1.5 in woody. There are plenty of users who will need to test scripts on their debian system which will run other systems which can't be upgraded (for many different reasons) to python 2.1. Suggestion: keep the python1.5 packages in woody, and remove them from sid once woody is released as the new stable. Regards, Kim Oldfield