Re: dpkg-repack warnings: what effect?

2006-08-08 Thread Ian Jackson
(Matthias drew my attention to this thread. Sorry I'm a bit late ...) Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matthias Klose wrote: I haven't yet seen any reasoning why people are seeing that information as cluttering the database or just as ugly. Causing unrelated programs like dpkg-repack

Re: dpkg-repack warnings: what effect?

2006-07-25 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le lundi 24 juillet 2006 à 23:18 -0500, Joe Wreschnig a écrit : (Or, finally announce that Python 2.4 is plain too late for etch. Then people can have as long as they want to debate over this crap, and Python developers can just give up hope.) Well, isn't the whole purpose of that new policy

Re: dpkg-repack warnings: what effect?

2006-07-25 Thread Joe Wreschnig
On Tue, 2006-07-25 at 14:27 +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: Le lundi 24 juillet 2006 à 23:18 -0500, Joe Wreschnig a écrit : (Or, finally announce that Python 2.4 is plain too late for etch. Then people can have as long as they want to debate over this crap, and Python developers can just

Re: dpkg-repack warnings: what effect?

2006-07-24 Thread Pierre Habouzit
Le lun 24 juillet 2006 16:26, Joey Hess a écrit : Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: dpkg-repack (from sid dpkg 1.13.22) gives warnings when repacking python packages: ... warning, `./dpkg-repack-5343/DEBIAN/control' contains user-defined field `Python-Version' ... What effect does this

Re: dpkg-repack warnings: what effect?

2006-07-24 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Pierre Habouzit [Mon, 24 Jul 2006 17:11:14 +0200]: just FYI, it's not mandatory [XB-Python-Version], one can use debian/pyversions instead (with python-support). Hm. I can see how debian/pyversions can substitute XS-Python-Version (both are available only at build time), but I fail to see

Re: dpkg-repack warnings: what effect?

2006-07-24 Thread Pierre Habouzit
Le lun 24 juillet 2006 19:52, Adeodato Simó a écrit : * Pierre Habouzit [Mon, 24 Jul 2006 17:11:14 +0200]: just FYI, it's not mandatory [XB-Python-Version], one can use debian/pyversions instead (with python-support). Hm. I can see how debian/pyversions can substitute XS-Python-Version

Re: dpkg-repack warnings: what effect?

2006-07-24 Thread Joey Hess
(Thanks for the CC.) Matthias Klose wrote: I haven't yet seen any reasoning why people are seeing that information as cluttering the database or just as ugly. Causing unrelated programs like dpkg-repack to spew warning messages is, by definition, ugly. Using X- fields, which are intended for

Re: dpkg-repack warnings: what effect?

2006-07-24 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Matthias Klose [Tue, 25 Jul 2006 00:56:29 +0200]: I agree that having Python-Version in binary packages is dislikeable. Out of curiosity, Matthias, would be a DEBIAN/pyversions file able to provide the same information to pycentral? ^^^ just looking at

Re: dpkg-repack warnings: what effect?

2006-07-24 Thread Joe Wreschnig
On Tue, 2006-07-25 at 02:07 +0200, Adeodato Simó wrote: * Matthias Klose [Tue, 25 Jul 2006 00:56:29 +0200]: I agree that having Python-Version in binary packages is dislikeable. Out of curiosity, Matthias, would be a DEBIAN/pyversions file able to provide the same information to