python2.6 related changes / note to my sponsorees

2009-03-25 Thread Piotr Ożarowski
We have functional python2.6 in experimental since few days (python-support in experimental has 2.6 in supported versions as well, BTW) and (future) 2.6 transition will require some changes (other than checking compatibility with new Python version or building new extensions) in debian/ directory

Re: python2.6 related changes / note to my sponsorees

2009-03-25 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mercredi 25 mars 2009 à 22:22 +0100, Piotr Ożarowski a écrit : * python2.6 is using dist-packages instead of site-packages and it installs to /usr/local by default: + add --install-layout=deb option to setup.py call in debian/rules (or py_setup_install_args from python.mk, see

Re: python2.6 related changes / note to my sponsorees

2009-03-25 Thread Piotr Ożarowski
[Josselin Mouette, 2009-03-25] * python-central is partially fixed in 0.6.10 so most of the packages don't need preinst maintainer script Will this work for full upgrades from lenny, in which it isn’t fixed? I hope we'll find a way to make sure python-central will be the first one which

Re: python2.6 related changes / note to my sponsorees

2009-03-25 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mercredi 25 mars 2009 à 22:53 +0100, Piotr Ożarowski a écrit : I hope we'll find a way to make sure python-central will be the first one which will be upgraded (Pre-Depends somewhere? Backporting some changes in Lenny's python-central?) Making one package (e.g. python-support) conflict with

Anticipating the migration: python-support 0.90 in unstable (was: Package names for docutils writers)

2009-03-25 Thread Ben Finney
Michael Schutte mi...@uiae.at writes: This is how I understand the problem: python-central writes to /usr/lib/python*/site-packages, while python-support uses /var/lib/python-support/python*. Python finds docutils/__init__.py in one directory and doesn’t look for modules starting with