Re: python 2.2 to python 2.3 transition

2003-08-12 Thread Dan Jacobson
Depending on Python 2.3 when a package works fine with 2.1 and 2.2 as well is not a good solution in my opinion. Modem users must spend an extra hour downloading just to get a tiny package too.

Re: #!/usr/bin/python2.3 vs #!/usr/bin/env python2.3

2003-08-12 Thread =?iso-8859-1?b?Suly9G1l?= Marant
Quoting John Goerzen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello, Many Python programs use constructs like #!/usr/bin/env python2.3 to load themselves. Many others use #!/usr/bin/python2.3. On most Debian systems, these are the same. The submitter in #189473 claims that #!/usr/bin/env python2.3 is wrong

Re: #!/usr/bin/python2.3 vs #!/usr/bin/env python2.3

2003-08-12 Thread =?iso-8859-1?b?Suly9G1l?= Marant
Quoting Jérôme Marant [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Quoting John Goerzen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello, Many Python programs use constructs like #!/usr/bin/env python2.3 to load themselves. Many others use #!/usr/bin/python2.3. On most Debian systems, these are the same. The submitter in

Re: python 2.2 to python 2.3 transition

2003-08-12 Thread Donovan Baarda
On Tue, 2003-08-12 at 12:54, Matthias Urlichs wrote: Hi, Donovan Baarda wrote: Using this the python package can notify all packages that depend on it by calling dpkg-reconfigure on them; That would work for me too, of course. egrep ^install ok installed:[^:]*:.*$PYTHONXY([ ,]|$) |

python transition summary

2003-08-12 Thread Josselin Mouette
I've put a summary of packages needing a rebuild in a world-writable file at http://people.debian.org/~joss/python-list.txt Please mark your uploads (maintainer or non-maintainer) in this file (gluck:~joss/public_html/python-list.txt). This is probably the time to start NMU's for library

Re: python 2.2 to python 2.3 transition

2003-08-12 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 12:38:16PM +1000, Donovan Baarda wrote: | On Mon, 2003-08-11 at 22:03, Matthias Urlichs wrote: | Hrm, this could be achieved quite simply, /methinks. It needs little | changes in dh_python and some prerm/postinst stuff in the python package | (not the pythonX.Y

Re: python transition and python-tal

2003-08-12 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mar 12/08/2003 à 16:45, Frederic Peters a écrit : Hi, python-tal is maintained by the QA team so I thought I'd help and NMU it. I added a python2.3-tal package and it built correctly but the no-version package (python-tal) still depends upon python2.2-tal (I changed

Re: python transition and python-tal

2003-08-12 Thread Frederic Peters
Josselin Mouette wrote : What version of python is installed on your system ? Your packages built fine on my system and made python-tal depend on python2.3-tal as expected. Great. I had python 2.3 installed but not yet as default python version (waiting for python-bsddb3). I don't have

Re: python transition summary

2003-08-12 Thread Matthias Klose
Josselin Mouette writes: I've put a summary of packages needing a rebuild in a world-writable file at http://people.debian.org/~joss/python-list.txt python-numarray-ext = updated but the new package misses python (= 2.3), python ( 2.4) unneeded, as it depends on python-numarray. anyway,

Re: python transition and python-tal

2003-08-12 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mar 12/08/2003 à 18:52, Frederic Peters a écrit : Josselin Mouette wrote : What version of python is installed on your system ? Your packages built fine on my system and made python-tal depend on python2.3-tal as expected. Great. I had python 2.3 installed but not yet as default

Re-request for sponsor: python-albatross

2003-08-12 Thread Fabian Fagerholm
Hi, This is my third or fourth attempt to find a sponsor for the python-albatross package. So far, I've been contacted by one developer who was interested in sponsoring the package; he never replied to my reply, however, so I assume he has other things to do at the moment. Meanwhile, I'm

Re: python 2.2 - python 2.3 transition

2003-08-12 Thread Samuel Bronson
Joey Hess wrote: Josip Rodin wrote: Am I the only one who has a disgusting reminiscence of netscape*.* packages every time python* is mentioned? :P Actually I'm more reminded of the perl* packages and the complete mess that followed. And I keep expecting to see the same set of problems

Re: python 2.2 - python 2.3 transition

2003-08-12 Thread John Goerzen
On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 01:32:33PM -0400, Samuel Bronson wrote: Well, I haven't had any python-related collisions from the pythonX.Y scheme... python (= 2.2), python ( 2.3) I've seen, of course... it would be so much nicer if someone added debian support to distutils, though ;-) (*hint*)