Package: release.debian.org Severity: normal User: release.debian....@packages.debian.org Usertags: unblock
Please unblock package python2.7 On balance, I think it's better to accept the newer python2.7 than not. I'm finally motivated to file this bug (instead of randomly hoping jcristau will feel motivated to do it) because of an RC issue that came up in Ubuntu today and affects Wheezy, but not Unstable in Debian (683050). As far as I know, the only issue that's come up with the 2.7.3-2 is the urlparse module where they simplified it and dropped some options which gave some packages a bit of trouble. It appears jwilk did a systematic sweep for packages that were affected by this (I say it seems because I haven't caught him online recently to ask, but everywhere I found the issue, he'd already filed a bug). All of these except three, because they weren't on their own RC (in some cases the change really broke packages, in others the impact was less so). Still open are #682148, #682150, and #679454. The first two are not RC and I didn't NMU gwibber (the last one) because it seems pretty broken in its current state and the maintainers said they're preparing a new upstream that already has this fixed. On a related note, #682603 is an unblock for one of these fixes that's waiting for approval. In addition to thinking releasing with the newer python2.7 udpate is a good idea, that would also unblock python-defaults (unblock pending as #682906). As I mentioned there, I think we definitely want those changes in. My recommendation is that you unblock python2.7, but increase the age requirement to 30 days (it's at 14 righ now) and that you also unblock linkchecker (#682603) and I'll NMU pegasus-wm, createrepo, and gwibber, file fore unblocks, etc. In each case the diff is very compact (similar to #682603 in scope). With python2.7 having two weeks to go, this was all the fixed packages can migrate with or before python2.7 so it can be a smooth switch (the fixed packages work fine with either the python2.7 in wheezy or unstable there's no need to tightly coordinate things. unblock python2.7/2.7.3-2 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-release-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120728073951.357.96134.reportbug@Scott-Latitude-E6320