I'm forwarding the message below (with some slight editing) to the pyro-core mailing list for feedback.
Irmen, in order to ease parallel installation of pyro3 and pyro4, would you mind changing the package name of pyro4 from 'pyro' to 'pyro4'? I think this would be beneficial for many users and that it would ease migration to pyro 4 (by easing the detection of which version is installed, and allowing legacy application to run side by side with new apps). Being able to have both versions installed is a must have from a system administration point of view (both installed on the same machine, and both running on the same LAN). Logilab is a pyro 3 heavy user (with the Cubiweb [1] framework), and we cannot afford to migrate to pyro 4 right now. Thanks for your feedback. [1] http://www.cubicweb.org/ ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: [Python-modules-team] please provide 2 packages: pyro and pyro4 Date: Thursday 12 August 2010, 10:55:56 From: Alexandre Fayolle <[email protected]> To: [email protected] CC: [email protected] As Sylvain said, pyro4 changes the ABI and therefore this update breaks any application deployed on the system depending on pyro 3.x. The best move imo would be to keep pyro4 in Debian experimental, since most users are using the official stable release (3.x branch), and to revert to pyro3 in sid/testing. I suggest providing 2 packages pyro and pyro4, which could at first conflict with each other. I think upstream should be contacted, and asked to change the namespace of pyro 4.x to pyro4 in order to ease parallel installation of both versions. In any case, please do not release squeeze with pyro 4.x as "pyro". This will be very painful. We really want pyro 3.9 in squeeze, as 4.x will break external applications. I'll be happy to help on this matter once -- Alexandre Fayolle LOGILAB, Paris (France) Formations Python, CubicWeb, Debian : http://www.logilab.fr/formations Développement logiciel sur mesure : http://www.logilab.fr/services Informatique scientifique: http://www.logilab.fr/science _______________________________________________ Python-modules-team mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/python-modules-team ----------------------------------------- -- Alexandre Fayolle LOGILAB, Paris (France) Formations Python, CubicWeb, Debian : http://www.logilab.fr/formations Développement logiciel sur mesure : http://www.logilab.fr/services Informatique scientifique: http://www.logilab.fr/science _______________________________________________ Python-modules-team mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/python-modules-team
