On Tuesday 10 September 2002 15:09, Chris Lawrence wrote: > On Sep 10, Matthias Klose wrote: > > Moshe Zadka writes: > > > I was wondering if you mind passing Python 1.5 maintainership to me. > > > > I do not mind passing the maintainership, but I do mind keeping it in > > unstable. Debian is not a museum for old python versions. What hinders > > you to install the python1.5 packages from woody in unstable? apt > > tagging is your friend. > > Well, two problems I can see: > > 1. Woody will eventually go away to archive.debian.org land, not long > after sarge is released. > > 2. There are woody Python packages that want libdb1, which disappears > from libc6 in sid/sarge. > > I agree we shouldn't keep it around forever, but it seems like as long > as people are using python1.5 with post-woody we should keep it. > > > Chris
Plus there are alreayy glibc changes in sid/sarge so people running woody are being forced to upgrade glibc or compile packages by hand. There is still a fair amount of software that has only been tested with 1.5 so it is not necessarily museum quality.
