Hi all, Wheezy is alive since 3 weeks now, but I ain't see anything moving on python side (on the contrary, other part of the toolchain is moving quite fast these days); and I don't mean commits in some "remote" VCS, I mean really visible stuff to users/developers.
Just to name the more important aspects still missing: - python policy is severely outdated; the last update was done right after the freeze (not the most happy timing I think). after that, nothing (it still advertises to use XB-Python-Version...) - we are "vividly encouraged" (it's not yet "forced" but we're coming to it) to use a new helper (dh_python2) which until a bunch of days ago haven't a manpage, still misses a howto doc to correctly use it for a new package, and shows it's young age with several bugs/misbehavior. We all want a single helper, and we want it to work, don't we? What's the status then? - no 2.7 in unstable: what are we waiting? the same mess as 2.6 for squeeze? - no clear guide to provide python3-* packages. Several times already it was asked before, but still nothing. dh_python3 might be also quite unstable changing it's interface/behavior quickly, and so what's left is trying to look at what others are doing, and adapt it to the current package: that's not how I want it, that's not how a tool should be released. Am I missing something? Call me provocative, call me idiot - I don't care. What I'm simply saying is that Python is going nowhere, and there's very few signals of improvements. All that, IMO. Cheers, -- Sandro Tosi (aka morph, morpheus, matrixhasu) My website: http://matrixhasu.altervista.org/ Me at Debian: http://wiki.debian.org/SandroTosi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
