Re: Second report: latest python in unstable broke my packages

2001-10-17 Thread Jérôme Marant
Donovan Baarda [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I didn't think the new packages were using alternatives? This is the first thing I checked: chinon:~$ ls -al /usr/bin/python lrwxr-xr-x1 root root 24 oct 16 12:14 /usr/bin/python - /etc/alternatives/python I discovered that

Second report: latest python in unstable broke my packages

2001-10-16 Thread Jérôme Marant
Hi, I said previously that the upgrade when OK. This is true, but I hadn't look further at that moment. I installed both python1.5 and python2.1. And installing both on the same system broke _all_ my python 1.5 packages: this is the alternative issue Perl people have warned us about.

Re: Second report: latest python in unstable broke my packages

2001-10-16 Thread Bastian Kleineidam
Jérôme Marant wrote: I said previously that the upgrade when OK. This is true, but I hadn't look further at that moment. My upgrade had some errors: File /usr/lib/python2.1/test/nocaret.py, line 2 [x for x in x] = x SyntaxError: can't assign to list comprehension SyntaxError: from

Re: Second report: latest python in unstable broke my packages

2001-10-16 Thread Matthias Klose
Bastian Kleineidam writes: Jérôme Marant wrote: I said previously that the upgrade when OK. This is true, but I hadn't look further at that moment. My upgrade had some errors: No errors. The postinst just compiled the testsuite. Btw, do we really need the testsuite as a

Re: Second report: latest python in unstable broke my packages

2001-10-16 Thread Donovan Baarda
Quoting Bruce Sass [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, On 16 Oct 2001, Jérôme Marant wrote: ... I installed both python1.5 and python2.1. And installing both on the same system broke _all_ my python 1.5 packages: this is the alternative issue Perl people have warned us about. I didn't