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

2003-08-18 Thread Federico Di Gregorio
kage. > > The difference: on $RANDOM_UNIX_SYSTEM you don't know that pythonX.Y > is in /usr/bin, but on a debian system you do and on a debian system > you'd rather not deal with other installations in $ENV. i think we pretty much all agree here. what about changing the python policy?

Re: automatic package building tool?

2003-07-10 Thread Federico Di Gregorio
particularly good/obvious package to start from? checkinstall is pretty good for personal use, but the debs produced are not suitable for inclusion in the project, imho. -- Federico Di Gregorio Debian GNU/Linux Developer & Italian Press Contact[EMAIL PROTECTED] Those who do not stu

Re: [zope] New features of the zope package 2.5.1-2.5

2002-11-28 Thread Federico Di Gregorio
Il mer, 2002-11-27 alle 11:11, Luca - De Whiskey's - De Vitis ha scritto: > * configuring: each product will restart Zope while configuring. > * end: Zope will restart only once at the end of the whole > installation/upgrading process. > * manually: You will have to restart Zope. >

Re: [zope] New features of the zope package 2.5.1-2.5

2002-11-27 Thread Federico Di Gregorio
Il mer, 2002-11-27 alle 09:53, Andreas Tille ha scritto: > On Wed, 27 Nov 2002, Luca - De Whiskey's - De Vitis wrote: > > > Sure, that's the way (by now) the shared template works. debconf-devel(7) > > says: > > > > SHARED TEMPLATES > >It's actually possible to have a template and a questi

Re: [zope] New features of the zope package 2.5.1-2.5

2002-11-26 Thread Federico Di Gregorio
lation/upgrading process. > * manually: You will have to restart Zope. > * product: each product will ask you how to proceed. are you sure we need the same qustion in every package? package's installation scripts can just ask the debconf database and pull user's preferences (

Re: Debian Sid and python-gtk2

2002-09-24 Thread Federico Di Gregorio
x27;re using the python2.2-gtk package you should do something like: import pygtk pygtk.require('2.0') from gtk import * ... -- Federico Di Gregorio Debian GNU/Linux Developer & Italian Press Contact[EMAIL PROTECTED] INIT.D Developer

dependencies of non-module packages

2002-08-26 Thread Federico Di Gregorio
*default* python if not yet installed. so what about the versioned main package and then the valid alternatives? mm.. -- Federico Di Gregorio Debian GNU/Linux Developer & Italian Press Contact[EMAIL PROTECTED] INIT.D Developer [EM

Re: python2.2 for sarge?

2002-07-26 Thread Federico Di Gregorio
h to 2.2 now and then again > to 2.3. But anyway, let's make unstable really unstable first by > switching to gcc-3.2 as the default compiler (coming soon :-) eheh. given that sarge won't be stable for another 12 months (optimistically) 2.3 will have plenty of time to stabilize.

Re: python2.2 for sarge?

2002-07-25 Thread Federico Di Gregorio
y do once we have 2.2 by default. I need > 2.2 for python2.2-dictclient, and for boost_python v2. (I've already got > a "local install" of newer pygame and pyopengl). python 2.2 is stable. do we have any important modules that *don't* work with 2.2? if not we can make

Re: Python and Emacs

2002-05-21 Thread Federico Di Gregorio
scans the region for sequences of spaces, and converts sequences of at least three spaces to tabs if that can be done without changing indentation. `M-x untabify' changes all tabs in the region to appropriate numbers of spaces. -- Federico Di Greg

dummy packages and lintian

2002-02-08 Thread Federico Di Gregorio
package *depends* on a real package, should i include the copyright even in the dummy package, symlink the doc directory or file an override to lintian? -- Federico Di Gregorio Debian GNU/Linux Developer & Italian Press Contact[EMAIL PROTECTED] INIT.D Devel

Re: Problems with new policy

2001-11-26 Thread Federico Di Gregorio
ith debian sonames. shouldn't a package name libfoo4 provide a library named libfoo.so.4.x.x? so, the right name is libsip-python2.1.so.2.0.0 or libsip2-python2.1.so or libsip.so.2.python2.1.x.y... ugly! it is even possible? -- Federico Di Gregorio Debian GNU/Li

Re: Problems with new policy

2001-11-26 Thread Federico Di Gregorio
t python versions require different libsi, then libsi *must* have a different soname and you can install both at the same time (as per debian library policy.) am i missing something? federico -- Federico Di Gregorio Debian GNU/Linux Developer & Italian Press Contact

Re: Packages that still need to be updated to new python policy

2001-11-26 Thread Federico Di Gregorio
5: xracer 0.96.9-10 xracer-tools 0.96.9-10 all are those the only packages still depending on 1.5 or there are others? would be nice to remove python 1.5 (really old, now) for woody. ciao, federico -- Federico Di Gregorio Debian GNU/Linux Developer & Italian Press Contact[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: zope, zope-popyda, psycopg and python1.5-{,egenix-}mxdatetime

2001-11-24 Thread Federico Di Gregorio
ackages are now in incoming. thank you very much joel! -- Federico Di Gregorio Debian GNU/Linux Developer & Italian Press Contact[EMAIL PROTECTED] INIT.D Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Qu'est ce que la folie? Juste un sentiment de libe

Re: zope, zope-popyda, psycopg and python1.5-{,egenix-}mxdatetime

2001-11-20 Thread Federico Di Gregorio
n avoid such bloat. agreed again. list all the packages that need to be ported to 2.1 and lets start working. only after *all* packages get ported we can remove python1.5 and all dependents packages. ready to help, federico -- Federico Di Gregorio Debian GNU/Linux Dev

Re: zope, zope-popyda, psycopg and python1.5-{,egenix-}mxdatetime

2001-11-19 Thread Federico Di Gregorio
debian is b0rken. sic. > Postscript: fog, does that mean that you intend to continue to maintain > python1.5-psycopg for a while? at least until python1.5 exits from debian. -- Federico Di Gregorio Debian GNU/Linux Developer & Italian Press Contact[EMAIL PROTECTED] INIT.D

Re: zope, zope-popyda, psycopg and python1.5-{,egenix-}mxdatetime

2001-11-19 Thread Federico Di Gregorio
ng has versions with the following dependencies: python-psycopg: python2.1-psycopg, python (>= 2.1), python (<< 2.2) python2.1-psycopg: python2.1-egenix-mxdatetime, python2.1 python1.5-psycopg: python-egenix-mxdatetime, python1.5 zope-psycopgda: zope, python2.1-psycopg works for me. f

Re: update-alternatives

2001-11-14 Thread Federico Di Gregorio
On Wed, 2001-11-14 at 14:45, Tille, Andreas wrote: > On Wed, 14 Nov 2001, Federico Di Gregorio wrote: > > > three copies? seems we have one copy of the same binary under three > > names here. unix support hardlinks, remember? > But are this *really* hardlinks? look at the

Re: update-alternatives

2001-11-14 Thread Federico Di Gregorio
blem which is the main target of my > question) before I file a bug report. three copies? seems we have one copy of the same binary under three names here. unix support hardlinks, remember? -- Federico Di Gregorio Debian GNU/Linux Developer & Italian Press Contact[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: python2.1-pgsql ?

2001-11-14 Thread Federico Di Gregorio
.1-egenix-mxdatetime and works perfectly. the old mx packages without 'egenix' in the name are deprecated and should be avoided. (i think they will be removed from the archive upon no other packages depending on them.) ciao, federico -- Federico Di Gregorio Debian GNU/Linux Developer

Re: Packaging python-egenix-mx*

2001-10-28 Thread Federico Di Gregorio
On Sun, 2001-10-28 at 22:55, Joel Rosdahl wrote: > Federico Di Gregorio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > i plan to drop support for 1.5 from psycopg (at least in debian > > builds) when we'll have a zope for python 2.1 in the archive. > > Okay. Will this happen

Re: Packaging python-egenix-mx*

2001-10-28 Thread Federico Di Gregorio
On Sun, 2001-10-28 at 22:34, Joel Rosdahl wrote: > Hi, > > I have now finished Debianizing eGenix mx BASE (based on patch done by > Federico Di Gregorio, see bug#56): > > http://www.lemburg.com/files/python/eGenix-mx-Extensions.html > > The upstream mainta

Re: Debian Python Policy [draft]

2001-09-26 Thread Federico Di Gregorio
> > However, xml tools for python would stay python-xml. terrible. while changing all packages to use libXXX-python is aceptable, the best thing is to stick to python-XXX. a lot of people expect it this way and is at least coherent. -- Federico Di Gregorio MIXAD LIVE Chief of Research &

Re: Python 2.0.1; transition plans for woody

2001-06-25 Thread Federico Di Gregorio
stable systems are there to be broken. if a lot of people outside debian development use unstable on production machine, that is their fault. (well, partly. even with testing debian is way too slow to release, imho.) ciao, federico -- Federico Di Gregorio MIXAD LIVE Chief of Research & Te

Re: Python 2.0.1; transition plans for woody

2001-06-25 Thread Federico Di Gregorio
ning ;-) ciao, federico -- Federico Di Gregorio MIXAD LIVE Chief of Research & Technology [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux Developer & Italian Press Contact[EMAIL PROTECTED] God is real. Unless declared integer. -- Anonymous FORTRAN programmer