Charles Lepple wrote: > On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 7:33 AM, Alexander > Hansen<[email protected]> wrote: >> On Jul 21, 2009, at 12:23 AM, Robert Wyatt wrote: >>> Is there a need for this package to continue to support python 2.3 or >>> 2.4? (Is that a stupid question?) I guess it's poor form to yank it out >>> from underneath users, but I'm not sure that I would be. > > Not a stupid question - actually, dmacks (cc'd) has been adding a few > Distribution tags to packages so that we don't bring anything older > than -py25 over to 10.5's successor. > >>> I see that python 2.5 is in the 10.4 stable tree (and this package is >>> not in the 10.3 tree), so I thought that just maybe it would be okay to >>> drop the support for 2.3 at least and maybe even 2.4, but I figure >>> there's a bigger picture I'm missing. Then again, maybe python won't be >>> my only dependency issue. >>> >>> Thanks for any pointers, >>> Robert >>> >> 10.3 has been unsupported for a year, so that's a non-factor. >> >> I'd say not to yank anything from under users, too. If you want to reduce >> to just having python25, then you should probably provide transitional >> packages for the other variants that depend on the -py25 one. Not quite >> ideal, but it serves the purpose. > > Dan, was the consensus that -py23 and -py24 variants don't need > upgrade packages? (If they do, I can go back and add them for Buildbot > and Trac.) > > Another question for this package is whether people benefit from > having the different python variants (e.g. some other package uses it > as a library) or if it is a standalone set of tools which should just > use the latest Python package in Fink.
Okay, I have a .info prepared that adds python 2.6 support running on one of my machines. This one does still keep the old support for 2.3 and 2.4 (and it seems to work). I'll keep testing it on different machines while we complete this discussion. I haven't attached it here but I can, or I can add a tracker item for it. The only problem I'm noticing is that if you add denyhosts-py26, it doesn't replace denyhosts-py25 (rather, it installs it side-by-side). Is there a (straightforward) way to do that correctly or can I get away with a usage note? By the way, this doesn't seem to be a new issue for this package, simply unnoticed previously (or it doesn't matter). Replaces: denyhosts-py%type_pkg[python] Regarding whether other packages depend on this one, is there a dpkg command that yields that answer? I don't think anything depends on it, I believe it is a standalone, but I'm not 100% sure (only 99.99%). Thanks! Robert ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge This is your chance to win up to $100,000 in prizes! For a limited time, vendors submitting new applications to BlackBerry App World(TM) will have the opportunity to enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge. See full prize details at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/Challenge _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list [email protected] http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.devel Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
