Packages that pretend to support Python 2.4

2010-05-17 Thread Jakub Wilk
Hello, 19 packages uses syntax constructs specific to Python 2.5+ in their public modules but don't declare that minimum supported version is 2.5. I'm looking for volunteers to do MBF. Packages: calibre_0.5.14+dfsg-1 elyxer_0.98-1 epigrass_2.0.1~dfsg-1 idjc_0.8.2-2

Re: Packages that pretend to support Python 2.4

2010-05-17 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Vincent Bernat ber...@debian.org, 2010-05-17, 21:43: 19 packages uses syntax constructs specific to Python 2.5+ in their public modules but don't declare that minimum supported version is 2.5. I'm looking for volunteers to do MBF. Out of curiosity, what method did you use to determine

Re: Packages that pretend to support Python 2.4

2010-05-17 Thread Stefano Rivera
Hi Jakub (2010.05.17_20:01:25_+0200) 19 packages uses syntax constructs specific to Python 2.5+ in their public modules but don't declare that minimum supported version is 2.5. I'm looking for volunteers to do MBF. Done, only 13 real bugs. calibre_0.5.14+dfsg-1 False positive

Post-install compilation of packages for unsupported Python versions (was: Packages that pretend to support Python 2.4)

2010-05-17 Thread Ben Finney
. […] Thanks for filing those, Stefano. All the bugs were just errors thrown in the python-support hook, […] I admit to being surprised that it was attempting to compile for Python 2.4 when that version isn't supported any longer. Do we consider it a bug that ‘python-support’ is attempting

Bug#557293: polybori: FTBFS without Python 2.4

2009-11-20 Thread Jonathan Wiltshire
once Python 2.4 is removed from the list of support Python versions. While you're there, you might also migrate from python-central to python-support (this is the advice of the debian-python list): http://wiki.debian.org/DebianPython/central2support -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze

Re: Boost.Python: Build and Install with Python 2.4 and 2.5?

2008-05-01 Thread David Abrahams
on Thu Mar 13 2008, Steve M. Robbins steve-AT-sumost.ca wrote: Actually, the only thing about Boost that causes grief to packagers is that the toolset name (e.g. gcc42) is embedded in the library filename. I just wrote a response on Boost.Build outlining this in some detail [1]. Embedding

Re: [Boost-build] Boost.Python: Build and Install with Python 2.4 and 2.5?

2008-05-01 Thread Steve M. Robbins
On Thu, May 01, 2008 at 10:30:32AM -0400, David Abrahams wrote: on Thu Mar 13 2008, Steve M. Robbins steve-AT-sumost.ca wrote: Actually, the only thing about Boost that causes grief to packagers is that the toolset name (e.g. gcc42) is embedded in the library filename. I just wrote a

Re: [Boost-build] Boost.Python: Build and Install with Python 2.4 and 2.5?

2008-05-01 Thread Stefan Seefeld
Steve, Steve M. Robbins wrote: It turns out to be simpler than that. With a small tweak to boost's Jamroot file, I'm now generating libraries without the toolset and without the Boost version decorations. I will use this for the upcoming Boost 1.35.0 Debian packages. By all means, could

Re: Boost.Python: providing libs for both Python 2.4 and 2.5.

2008-03-24 Thread Dominic Hargreaves
On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 12:18:17PM -0500, Steve M. Robbins wrote: I wrote about three weeks ago [1] that I'm trying to get Boost's Python extension helper library building with multiple Python versions. Several very helpful suggestions were made, for which I am grateful. I have been

Re: [pkg-boost-devel] Boost.Python: providing libs for both Python 2.4 and 2.5.

2008-03-24 Thread Steve M. Robbins
On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 05:52:47PM +, Dominic Hargreaves wrote: However, it looks to be like the shlibs file needs updating. Yes, and thanks for the bug report. Upload is being prepared now. -Steve signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [pkg-boost-devel] Boost.Python: providing libs for both Python 2.4 and 2.5.

2008-03-22 Thread Steve M. Robbins
On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 03:59:30PM -0400, Aaron M. Ucko wrote: I do, however, see a couple of concrete issues with your script: if [ $1 = -d ]; then debug=-d shift fi Shouldn't you fix that at build time à la $version? You noticed a complication I was avoiding. There are

Re: [pkg-boost-devel] Boost.Python: providing libs for both Python 2.4 and 2.5.

2008-03-22 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
Steve M. Robbins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: libraries, including the Boost.Python libraries. The only difference in names is that the debug libraries have -d in them. So I was avoiding two scripts by this parameterization. Ah, thanks for clarifying; I had forgotten about the -dbg package,

Boost.Python: providing libs for both Python 2.4 and 2.5.

2008-03-21 Thread Steve M. Robbins
Hello, I wrote about three weeks ago [1] that I'm trying to get Boost's Python extension helper library building with multiple Python versions. Several very helpful suggestions were made, for which I am grateful. I have been plugging away, very slowly, ever since. I'm hoping to upload it later

Re: Boost.Python: providing libs for both Python 2.4 and 2.5.

2008-03-21 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
Steve M. Robbins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This allows extension builders to select either the default Python version, or a specific version, without knowing the Boost and GCC versions [2]. Yep; so far so good. I'd like to ask about intended behaviour if a bad action is supplied. Or if an

Re: [Boost-build] Boost.Python: Build and Install with Python 2.4 and 2.5?

2008-03-13 Thread Steve M. Robbins
On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 09:11:25PM -0400, David Abrahams wrote: on Sat Feb 23 2008, Steve M. Robbins steve-AT-sumost.ca wrote: [...] This produces pairs of library files such as bin.v2/.../link-static/libboost_python-gcc42-1_34_1.a

Re: [pkg-boost-devel] Boost.Python: Build and Install with Python 2.4 and 2.5?

2008-02-27 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 10:04:26PM -0600, Steve M. Robbins wrote: On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 09:17:24PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: Decorate only the shared library names with the python versions, and retain the current names for the .a files and .so symlinks - with two separate -dev

Re: [boost] [pkg-boost-devel] Boost.Python: Build and Install with Python 2.4 and 2.5?

2008-02-27 Thread Domenico Andreoli
Hi, On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 10:04:26PM -0600, Steve M. Robbins wrote: On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 01:15:31PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: The solution is to keep the names decorated with both python versions, but to maintain a farm of symbolic links pointing to the current python

Re: [pkg-boost-devel] Boost.Python: Build and Install with Python 2.4 and 2.5?

2008-02-27 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mardi 26 février 2008 à 22:04 -0600, Steve M. Robbins a écrit : The idea is to create a single -dev package that contains the following in /usr/lib: libboost_python-py24-gcc42-1_34_1.so libboost_python-py24-gcc42-1_34_1.a libboost_python-py25-gcc42-1_34_1.so

Re: [pkg-boost-devel] [boost] Boost.Python: Build and Install with Python 2.4 and 2.5?

2008-02-27 Thread Steve M. Robbins
extension modules will, in fact, build for both Python 2.4 and 2.5. Now imagine an extension module that uses Boost.Python. As mentioned, it must have the relevant build-deps. To support this, the relevant boost-python development packages must be co-installable (i.e. not conflict with each other

Re: [boost] [pkg-boost-devel] Boost.Python: Build and Install with Python 2.4 and 2.5?

2008-02-26 Thread Stefan Seefeld
Steve M. Robbins wrote: Hi, Thanks to Steve, Bernd, and Josselin for ideas. On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 09:17:24PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: Decorate only the shared library names with the python versions, and retain the current names for the .a files and .so symlinks - with two separate

Re: [pkg-boost-devel] [boost] Boost.Python: Build and Install with Python 2.4 and 2.5?

2008-02-26 Thread Steve M. Robbins
they end up in separate directories. The proposal above is that we provide a boost-python-2.4-dev and a boost-python-2.5-dev package that conflict with one another (because they would contain files of the same name). This prevents a source package from depending on both for a build, and therefore

Re: Boost.Python: Build and Install with Python 2.4 and 2.5?

2008-02-24 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Hi, I'd suggest to do 3. Put the libraries in different subdirectories, e.g. /usr/lib/python2.4/libboost_python-gcc42-1_34_1.a /usr/lib/python2.5/libboost_python-gcc42-1_34_1.a and add a symlink to /usr/lib which points to the library version for the current default python

Boost.Python: Build and Install with Python 2.4 and 2.5?

2008-02-23 Thread Steve M. Robbins
Hi, I'm part of the Debian Boost packaging team, seeking some guidance on how to build and install Boost.Python so that it is usable with all Python versions shipped in Debian. Debian currently ships Python 2.4 and 2.5. When reading the following, keep in mind that Boost.Python is not a Python

Help with #381343 (FutureWarning: hex/oct constants sys.maxint will return positive values in Python 2.4 and up)

2006-08-06 Thread Ludovic Rousseau
in Python 2.4 and up if _lsbStrToInt(buffer[:4]) != 0x950412de: /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/PyPlucker/helper/gettext.py:176: FutureWarning: hex/oct constants sys.maxint will return positive values in Python 2.4 and up f.write(_intToLsbStr(0x950412de))# magic number /usr/lib/python2.3/site

Re: Move to python 2.4 / Changing the packaging style for python packages

2006-07-25 Thread Loïc Minier
Matthias, On Tue, Jun 13, 2006, Matthias Klose wrote: We will prepare the transition in experimental by an upload of the python, python-dev packages I tried testing my rtupdates scripts by installing python version 2.4.3-5 from experimental, but they didn't seem to run, and I

Re: Move to python 2.4 / Changing the packaging style for python packages

2006-06-12 Thread Ben Burton
Hi, With the upcoming releases of the last packages which didn't support 2.4 yet (Plone on the Zope application server) we may be able to drop support for 2.3 in sid and etch as well. For reference, decompyle still needs python2.3. There are two issues: 1. It won't build under python2.4.

Re: Move to python 2.4 / Changing the packaging style for python packages

2006-06-12 Thread Duck
decompile python2.4 bytecode. This will be somewhat harder to fix (and I haven't done it yet). If it is not able to decompile recent python version, then it is a kind of useless one. Python 2.4 is out since a while, what are upstream plans for their software ? -- Marc Dequènes (Duck

Re: Move to python 2.4 / Changing the packaging style for python packages

2006-06-12 Thread Ben Burton
(e.g., rm *.py, oops), which is why I want to keep it around. Python 2.4 is out since a while, what are upstream plans for their software ? Upstream went commercial back in the 2.2 days. The debian packages forked and essentially became the de-facto upstream source when 2.3 decompilation

Re: python 2.4?

2006-05-18 Thread Ganesan Rajagopal
Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: That much is obvious. The point is wouldn't it be confusing to the user to call the package python-ctypes when it doesn't support the current python version? Oh well, I guess I can put in something in the description to explain this. A package named

Re: python 2.4?

2006-05-18 Thread Ganesan Rajagopal
Josselin Mouette [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Le jeudi 18 mai 2006 à 00:11 -0500, Steve Langasek a écrit : A package named python-ctypes must support the current python version: it must ensure this by having a versioned dependency on the versions of python that it is compatible with. That

Re: python 2.4?

2006-05-18 Thread Matthias Klose
Steve Langasek writes: On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 10:03:15AM +0530, Ganesan Rajagopal wrote: Josselin Mouette [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In short, the main decision has been to drop entirely python2.x-foo packages. They will, however, be provided as virtual packages, but only if

Re: python 2.4?

2006-05-17 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 10:03:15AM +0530, Ganesan Rajagopal wrote: Josselin Mouette [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In short, the main decision has been to drop entirely python2.x-foo packages. They will, however, be provided as virtual packages, but only if something actually needs them.

Re: python 2.4?

2006-05-17 Thread Ganesan Rajagopal
Josselin Mouette [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Le mercredi 17 mai 2006 à 14:12 +0530, Ganesan Rajagopal a écrit : I understand the upgrade issues that pythonX.Y packages cause with multiple versions of python in Debian. However, for binary modules I don't really see an alternative in some cases.

Re: python 2.4?

2006-05-17 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, May 18, 2006 at 10:06:59AM +0530, Ganesan Rajagopal wrote: Josselin Mouette [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Le jeudi 18 mai 2006 à 08:17 +0530, Ganesan Rajagopal a écrit : There's no point in simplifying python packaging if in fact it becomes more complicated because we allow

Re: python 2.4?

2006-05-16 Thread Gustavo Franco
On 5/13/06, Raphael Hertzog [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 12 May 2006, Andreas Barth wrote: How about, right now, just a statement this is what the issues are. Or even, this [URL here] is the mailing list post where the issues are outlined. I forgot about them. So, I need to collect

Re: python 2.4?

2006-05-16 Thread Raphael Hertzog
... Matthias has some updates on python-central on his laptop and he should upload it somewhere so that we can take a look. We agreed to switch to python-2.4 in the week following debconf (next week that is) and go on with whatever we have at that time. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog Premier livre français sur

Re: python 2.4?

2006-05-16 Thread Gustavo Franco
python-support ? Can we technically keep using both (we shouldn't IMHO!) ? We agreed to switch to python-2.4 in the week following debconf (next week that is) and go on with whatever we have at that time. Great news, i just want to have an idea now, how much work we will need to put dpmt packages

Re: python 2.4?

2006-05-16 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mardi 16 mai 2006 à 17:04 -0300, Gustavo Franco a écrit : Matthias has some updates on python-central on his laptop and he should upload it somewhere so that we can take a look. Ok, but what's the point here? Are we going to drop python-support usage ? Will python-central provides

Re: python 2.4?

2006-05-16 Thread Gustavo Franco
decided to use python-support. The python modules team already knows it and won't have anything to change in such packages. The necessary code for dh_python will be back soon. Well, i'm part of the dpmt and it wasn't really decided to stick with python-support after/while moving to python 2.4. I've

Re: python 2.4?

2006-05-16 Thread Ganesan Rajagopal
Josselin Mouette [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In short, the main decision has been to drop entirely python2.x-foo packages. They will, however, be provided as virtual packages, but only if something actually needs them. ... For C extensions, it was decided to build them for all available

Re: python 2.4?

2006-05-13 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Fri, 12 May 2006, Andreas Barth wrote: How about, right now, just a statement this is what the issues are. Or even, this [URL here] is the mailing list post where the issues are outlined. I forgot about them. So, I need to collect them again. Even release managers don't have a

Re: Python 2.1/2.2 removal; Python 2.4 as default

2006-04-13 Thread Fabio Tranchitella
On Wed, 2006-04-12 at 22:58 +0200, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: zope2.9 is simply still sitting in NEW, and is not rejected. I see there was a clarification requested over the weekend about the big number of zope versions in the archive (2.9 would be the 4th), and Fabio replied. This was two

Re: Python 2.1/2.2 removal; Python 2.4 as default

2006-04-12 Thread Raphael Hertzog
week for some: nothing problematic. Please go ahead with the python 2.4 change ASAP. Unfortunately FTP masters did reject the Zope2.x upload, which uses python2.4. Any reasons for that? Zope2.7 already was scheduled for removal. I'm not ftpmaster so I can't comment, but usually they give a reason

Re: Python 2.1/2.2 removal; Python 2.4 as default

2006-04-12 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 04:33:35PM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: Jeroen van Wolffelaar writes: On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 12:41:13AM +0200, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: So, because there were no objections to the python 2.1/2.2 removal, I'll be proceeding with that. Done now, I'd like to

Re: Python 2.1/2.2 removal; Python 2.4 as default

2006-04-12 Thread Matthias Klose
Jeroen van Wolffelaar writes: Unfortunately FTP masters did reject the Zope2.x upload, which uses python2.4. Any reasons for that? Zope2.7 already was scheduled for removal. Can you please be more specific? And/or reply to the REJECT mail, as it states at the bottom of every reject? That

Re: Python 2.1/2.2 removal; Python 2.4 as default

2006-04-12 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 10:32:28PM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: Jeroen van Wolffelaar writes: Unfortunately FTP masters did reject the Zope2.x upload, which uses python2.4. Any reasons for that? Zope2.7 already was scheduled for removal. Can you please be more specific? And/or reply

Re: Python 2.1/2.2 removal; Python 2.4 as default

2006-04-11 Thread Rene Engelhard
Matthias Klose wrote: Jeroen van Wolffelaar writes: The first freezes are already closing in fast, did I miss something? There's no update since http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2005/10/msg4.html Yes. At least the January, 3rd one

Re: Python 2.1/2.2 removal; Python 2.4 as default

2006-04-11 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
On Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 01:49:52PM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: Jeroen van Wolffelaar writes: The first freezes are already closing in fast, did I miss something? There's no update since http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2005/10/msg4.html We're roughly 16 weeks from the

Re: Python 2.1/2.2 removal; Python 2.4 as default

2006-04-11 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 12:41:13AM +0200, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: So, because there were no objections to the python 2.1/2.2 removal, I'll be proceeding with that. Done now, I'd like to announce this, together with some warning about default python version changes, if they're going to

Re: Python 2.1/2.2 removal; Python 2.4 as default

2006-04-08 Thread Ben Burton
decompyle2.2 has an unsatisfied build-dependency: python2.2-dev This is a legacy package, and it requires python 2.2 (it will not work with 2.3 or newer). I have just filed an ftp.d.o bug asking for it to be removed. Users should have no problem switching to the newer decompyle package

Re: Python 2.1/2.2 removal; Python 2.4 as default

2006-04-07 Thread Iustin Pop
On Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 12:33:11PM +0200, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: python-pylibacl has an unsatisfied build-dependency: python2.2-dev python-pyxattr has an unsatisfied build-dependency: python2.2-dev I've already re-built these two packages, removing 2.1 and 2.2 support and adding 2.4.

Re: Python 2.1/2.2 removal; Python 2.4 as default

2006-04-07 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
On Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 01:38:43PM +0200, Iustin Pop wrote: On Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 12:33:11PM +0200, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: python-pylibacl has an unsatisfied build-dependency: python2.2-dev python-pyxattr has an unsatisfied build-dependency: python2.2-dev I've already re-built

Re: Python 2.1/2.2 removal; Python 2.4 as default

2006-04-07 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Fri, 07 Apr 2006, Iustin Pop wrote: On Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 12:33:11PM +0200, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: python-pylibacl has an unsatisfied build-dependency: python2.2-dev python-pyxattr has an unsatisfied build-dependency: python2.2-dev I've already re-built these two packages,

Re: Python 2.1/2.2 removal; Python 2.4 as default

2006-04-07 Thread Matthias Klose
Jeroen van Wolffelaar writes: The first freezes are already closing in fast, did I miss something? There's no update since http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2005/10/msg4.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: Python 2.1/2.2 removal; Python 2.4 as default

2006-04-07 Thread Iustin Pop
On Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 01:38:43PM +0200, Iustin Pop wrote: I've already re-built these two packages, removing 2.1 and 2.2 support and adding 2.4. However, I've been unable to find a sponsor. Thanks everyone for the suggestions. Will update the bug reports later today with the relevant

Re: Wither the Python 2.4 migration?

2006-03-24 Thread Fathi Boudra
hi, i asked a similar question in september : http://lists.debian.org/debian-python/2005/09/msg4.html Any news ? cheers, Fathi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Wither the Python 2.4 migration?

2006-03-13 Thread Joe Wreschnig
Hi Matthias, What's the status of the Python 2.4 transition? During January you said you were waiting on feedback from Steve Langasek and Josselin Mouette, but Steve said he hasn't heard anything from you in a while, and thinks that the transition outweighs whatever other Python improvements