Charles Lepple wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 1:19 PM, Robert Wyatt<[email protected]> wrote:
>> https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=414256&aid=2824887&group_id=17203
>>
>> Okay, I've added a new tracker item with a revision of denyhosts
>> adding support for 2.6 and I assigned it to clepple, who graciously
>> offered that I could do this.
> 
> Looks good.
> 
>> I am running denyhosts-py26 on two 10.5 and one 10.4 machines and it
>> is functioning as advertised (as well as having passed the requisite
>> tests as noted on the package submission).
>>
>> I don't have any great motivation to remove support for python 2.3 (or
>> 2.4) except that I think it might be a good idea. I have checked to
>> see that nothing else depends on this package using 'grep -lr
>> denyhosts /sw/fink/dists/unstable/*/finkinfo' (thanks to dmacks for
>> that) and nothing does (I also checked the stable tree just in case).
>> I'm definitely open to suggestions for how to do this gracefully--or I
>> guess I can just leave it but I don't intend to test the functionality
>> of the -py23 and -py24 variants.
> 
> It doesn't sound like there is one right answer for this. AKH
> mentioned (in the other thread) that it would be good to provide a
> placeholder package for -py23 and -py24 if you're going to drop them.
> However, if the upstream authors haven't said anything about not
> supporting python <= 2.4, then it's probably simplest to just leave
> them in there.
> 
> I'll commit it as-is, but if you hear differently about support for
> older Python versions, let me know and we'll add some transitional
> placeholder packages that depend on the -py26 version.

Thank you Charles!

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