Package: release.debian.org Severity: normal User: [email protected] Usertags: transition
This transition is the first major step of meeting the Python release goal for Wheezy. The plan in this step is to drop python2.5 and add python2.7 in supported versions. The default python will remain python2.6. The affected packages have been identified: http://release.debian.org/transitions/python2.7.html Because the default python version isn't changing, these do not have to be done all at once. They can be done in smaller batches so as not to impact other transitions or overload the buildds. It would be best to do packages that are used by other packages as build-depends. There are a few packages that directly depend on python2.5 that will have to be ported to a newer python version or removed, but the list is small and we can deal with them in the context of the upcoming python2.5 removal bug and not this transition. They are: freevo gozerbot libtuxcap nagios-statd python-multiprocessing Of those, python-multiprocessing will definitely be removed since it's a backport of a module included in python2.6 and later. python2.7 is already in testing. python-support, python-central, distribute, and python-stdlib-extensions will need updates. I've discussed this with maintainers/uploaders for those packages. They have either been in experimental or are trivial to prepare and will be uploaded in coordination with python-defaults. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic-pae (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110411174634.31689.76665.reportbug@Scott-Latitude-E6320
