Wow... no replies in this imho important thread... Hi Kumar,
Thanks for starting the roll. Imho numpy/scipy and then any other python- with binary modules and not absent rdepends should be indeed rebuilt with 2.6 and installed in the (ch)root to verify if any other 2.6 package dependent on them not only builds but at least imports. Module name should be easy to figure out in many cases - for most of them since due to policy's "should" iirc rule module name should be actual suffix of the "python-" package name. If it does imports fine I would look for module.test and if present -- run it. That would imho be very valuable information for package maintainers... it might even be worth to setup some temporary repository with builds of the packages with binary extensions (e.g numpy) for 2.6 so that anyone willing to troubleshoot his dependent package for 2.6 compatibility could use prebuilt packages from there instead of manual redoing what you are doing ;-) Cheers, Yarik On Wed, 14 Oct 2009, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > Dear Debian Python, > As you may be aware, I have been making quite a bit of hue and cry > about the Python 2.6 transition blocking bugs[1]. I have managed to > submit patches for most of the packages to _make them build_ with > Python 2.6. However, as Paul Wise righly points out[2], my patches > merely make the packages build; I haven't really tested any of these > packages with Python 2.6 (In fact, I observe that fonttools is > dependent on python-numpy, which is not yet built with python 2.6, so > I shouldn't have sent that patch at all!). So, in my opinion, it would > be best if the maintainer, or someone who can invest time into > verifying that these packages do work with Python 2.6, performs > uploads to fix the blocking bugs. > Thanks! > Kumar > [1]: > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?users=debian-pyt...@lists.debian.org;tag=python2.6 > [2]: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=547821#20 -- .-. =------------------------------ /v\ ----------------------------= Keep in touch // \\ (yoh@|www.)onerussian.com Yaroslav Halchenko /( )\ ICQ#: 60653192 Linux User ^^-^^ [175555] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-python-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org