Re: Maintaining Python 1.5
Moshe Zadka writes: I was wondering if you mind passing Python 1.5 maintainership to me. I do not mind passing the maintainership, but I do mind keeping it in unstable. Debian is not a museum for old python versions. What hinders you to install the python1.5 packages from woody in unstable? apt tagging is your friend. Matthias PS: You have to ask Gregor to hand over maintainership.
Re: Maintaining Python 1.5
On Sep 10, Matthias Klose wrote: Moshe Zadka writes: I was wondering if you mind passing Python 1.5 maintainership to me. I do not mind passing the maintainership, but I do mind keeping it in unstable. Debian is not a museum for old python versions. What hinders you to install the python1.5 packages from woody in unstable? apt tagging is your friend. Well, two problems I can see: 1. Woody will eventually go away to archive.debian.org land, not long after sarge is released. 2. There are woody Python packages that want libdb1, which disappears from libc6 in sid/sarge. I agree we shouldn't keep it around forever, but it seems like as long as people are using python1.5 with post-woody we should keep it. Chris -- Chris Lawrence [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.lordsutch.com/chris/ Computer Systems Manager, Physics and Astronomy, Univ. of Mississippi 125B Lewis Hall - 662-915-5765
Re: Maintaining Python 1.5
On Tuesday 10 September 2002 15:09, Chris Lawrence wrote: On Sep 10, Matthias Klose wrote: Moshe Zadka writes: I was wondering if you mind passing Python 1.5 maintainership to me. I do not mind passing the maintainership, but I do mind keeping it in unstable. Debian is not a museum for old python versions. What hinders you to install the python1.5 packages from woody in unstable? apt tagging is your friend. Well, two problems I can see: 1. Woody will eventually go away to archive.debian.org land, not long after sarge is released. 2. There are woody Python packages that want libdb1, which disappears from libc6 in sid/sarge. I agree we shouldn't keep it around forever, but it seems like as long as people are using python1.5 with post-woody we should keep it. Chris Plus there are alreayy glibc changes in sid/sarge so people running woody are being forced to upgrade glibc or compile packages by hand. There is still a fair amount of software that has only been tested with 1.5 so it is not necessarily museum quality.
