Re: Python transition

2003-10-13 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 01:49:46PM -0500, John Goerzen wrote: On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 08:29:12PM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: Packages, that are too young are not considered for migration to testing. As these packages have a dependency on python (=2.3), they Few, if any, of my packages

Re: Summary of python transition problems

2003-10-13 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 10:55:54AM +1000, Donovan Baarda wrote: On Wed, 2003-10-08 at 03:28, Matthias Klose wrote: It does help for python applications, which depend on an explicit python version. I did not count packages with a 'python2.3 (= 2.3)' dependency. I would argue that using a

Re: Summary of python transition problems

2003-10-13 Thread Matthias Klose
Colin Watson writes: The only reason to put a version on a pythonX.Y dependency would be if you know there was a particular version of pythonX.Y that your package doesn't work with. The versioned dependency is probably generated automatically by dpkg-shlibdeps: $ cat

Re: Summary of python transition problems

2003-10-13 Thread Matthias Klose
Colin Watson writes: On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 07:28:23PM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: Colin Watson writes: For what it's worth, I think a python-defaults source package or some such would help: at the moment there are several packages needlessly stalled on python2.3, even though their

Re: Summary of python transition problems

2003-10-13 Thread Donovan Baarda
On Tue, 2003-10-14 at 04:29, Matthias Klose wrote: Colin Watson writes: On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 07:28:23PM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: Colin Watson writes: For what it's worth, I think a python-defaults source package or some such would help: at the moment there are several packages