Re: Debian Python policy Upgrade Path (draft/proposal)

2001-10-20 Thread Carey Evans
Matthias Klose [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] exactly. But you see that these packages will break when you try to upgrade. We can't make 2.1 the default right now, because we will _silently_ break packages. Before python can point to python2.1, we will have to fix all packages which depend

Re: Python upgrade path (draft/proposal)

2001-10-20 Thread Chris Lawrence
On Oct 18, Matthias Klose wrote: May I suggest a simpler alternative for (b) (or maybe an alternative c): Make package python-XXX containing support for both python 1.5 and python 2.1. For each python {1.5,2.1} that is installed, bytecompile the package's .py files on install. Since