Re: XS-Python-Version vs pyversions

2009-09-08 Thread Floris Bruynooghe
On Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 01:49:06AM +0700, Mikhail Gusarov wrote: Twas brillig at 11:37:50 07.09.2009 UTC-07 when vor...@debian.org did gyre and gimble: SL They were part of the design that came out of the python packaging SL BoF in DebConf 6 that you then proceeded to ignore entirely.

Re: XS-Python-Version vs pyversions

2009-09-08 Thread anatoly techtonik
On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 9:49 PM, Mikhail Gusarovdotted...@dottedmag.net wrote: Twas brillig at 11:37:50 07.09.2009 UTC-07 when vor...@debian.org did gyre and gimble:  SL They were part of the design that came out of the python packaging  SL BoF in DebConf 6 that you then proceeded to ignore

Re: XS-Python-Version vs pyversions

2009-09-08 Thread Mikhail Gusarov
Twas brillig at 20:21:31 07.09.2009 UTC-07 when vor...@debian.org did gyre and gimble: SL They were part of the design that came out of the python SL packaging BoF in DebConf 6 that you then proceeded to ignore SL entirely. Is this design and rationale written down somewhere? It's

Re: XS-Python-Version vs pyversions

2009-09-08 Thread Mikhail Gusarov
Twas brillig at 09:35:04 08.09.2009 UTC+01 when floris.bruynoo...@gmail.com did gyre and gimble: Is this design and rationale written down somewhere? It's hard to follow policy which contains completely opaque requirements. FB I recall watching a video of that BoF, so it should be

Re: XS-Python-Version vs pyversions

2009-09-08 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le lundi 07 septembre 2009 à 20:21 -0700, Steve Langasek a écrit : SL They were part of the design that came out of the python packaging SL BoF in DebConf 6 that you then proceeded to ignore entirely. Please don’t bring that topic again. I have spent more than enough time implementing

Re: XS-Python-Version vs pyversions

2009-09-08 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Steve Langasek wrote: On Sun, Sep 06, 2009 at 07:59:13PM +0200, Luca Falavigna wrote: Il giorno Sun, 6 Sep 2009 19:32:34 +0200 Alessandro Dentella san...@e-den.it ha scritto: pyversions: missing XS-Python-Version in control file, fall back to debian/pyversions It's fine to have

Re: XS-Python-Version vs pyversions

2009-09-08 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 03:53:31PM +0700, Mikhail Gusarov wrote: Twas brillig at 20:21:31 07.09.2009 UTC-07 when vor...@debian.org did gyre and gimble: SL They were part of the design that came out of the python SL packaging BoF in DebConf 6 that you then proceeded to ignore SL

Re: XS-Python-Version vs pyversions

2009-09-08 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Steve Langasek wrote: The XS-Python-Version field was specified as a tool for detecting, without having to download and inspect individual source packages, that a given package can be successfully rebuilt for a python transition, to aid the release team in this work. As mentioned somewhere

Re: XS-Python-Version vs pyversions

2009-09-08 Thread Mikhail Gusarov
Twas brillig at 02:42:09 08.09.2009 UTC-07 when vor...@debian.org did gyre and gimble: SL Spare me your ignorant preaching and go read the mailing list SL archives. Mailing list archives are not documentation. SL It once lived at http://people.debian.org/~piman/python-policy/ - SL before

Re: XS-Python-Version vs pyversions

2009-09-08 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 04:49:54PM +0700, Mikhail Gusarov wrote: Twas brillig at 02:42:09 08.09.2009 UTC-07 when vor...@debian.org did gyre and gimble: SL Spare me your ignorant preaching and go read the mailing list SL archives. Mailing list archives are not documentation. They're

Re: XS-Python-Version vs pyversions

2009-09-08 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Steve Langasek wrote: On Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 03:53:31PM +0700, Mikhail Gusarov wrote: Twas brillig at 20:21:31 07.09.2009 UTC-07 when vor...@debian.org did gyre and gimble: SL They were part of the design that came out of the python SL packaging BoF in DebConf 6 that you then

Re: XS-Python-Version vs pyversions

2009-09-08 Thread Mikhail Gusarov
Twas brillig at 03:00:53 08.09.2009 UTC-07 when vor...@debian.org did gyre and gimble: SL plonk So Steve went here for whining, not for fixing the situation. How sad :( -- http://fossarchy.blogspot.com/ pgpxrPkrnQu1T.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: XS-Python-Version vs pyversions

2009-09-08 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Steve Langasek wrote: On Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 04:49:54PM +0700, Mikhail Gusarov wrote: Twas brillig at 02:42:09 08.09.2009 UTC-07 when vor...@debian.org did gyre and gimble: SL Spare me your ignorant preaching and go read the mailing list SL archives. Mailing list archives are not

Re: XS-Python-Version vs pyversions

2009-09-08 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Tue, 08 Sep 2009 11:49:20 +0200 Bernd Zeimetz be...@bzed.de wrote: Steve Langasek wrote: The XS-Python-Version field was specified as a tool for detecting, without having to download and inspect individual source packages, that a given package can be successfully rebuilt for a python

Re: XS-Python-Version vs pyversions

2009-09-08 Thread Piotr Ożarowski
[Scott Kitterman, 2009-09-08] Does pyversions offer any real advantages over XS-...? All things being equal, if both helpers support a common method for this I think we should just use it. /me (while converting his packages back to python-support) is still using XS-Python-Version

Re: XS-Python-Version vs pyversions

2009-09-08 Thread Mikhail Gusarov
Twas brillig at 16:42:41 08.09.2009 UTC+02 when pi...@debian.org did gyre and gimble: PO I.e. using build dependencies to determine[1] requested Python PO versions. Joss mentioned it on #debian-python recently so I guess PO he's willing to remove pyversions... Sounds good, getting rid of

Re: XS-Python-Version vs pyversions

2009-09-08 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Tue, 08 Sep 2009 12:21:07 +0200 Bernd Zeimetz be...@bzed.de wrote: There was a policy process? Apparently we still need one of these. Can we work on solving this? I think having a mechanism to create an actual current, maintained Python policy is a pre-requisite to solving a lot of these

Re: XS-Python-Version vs pyversions

2009-09-08 Thread Nicolas Chauvat
On Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 09:53:09AM -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote: On Tue, 08 Sep 2009 12:21:07 +0200 Bernd Zeimetz be...@bzed.de wrote: There was a policy process? Apparently we still need one of these. Can we work on solving this? I think having a mechanism to create an actual current,

Re: XS-Python-Version vs pyversions

2009-09-08 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Tue, 08 Sep 2009 15:52:57 +0200 Josselin Mouette j...@debian.org wrote: Le mardi 08 septembre 2009 à 09:35 -0400, Scott Kitterman a écrit : Does pyversions offer any real advantages over XS-...? All things being equal, if both helpers support a common method for this I think we should

Re: XS-Python-Version vs pyversions

2009-09-08 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mardi 08 septembre 2009 à 09:35 -0400, Scott Kitterman a écrit : Does pyversions offer any real advantages over XS-...? All things being equal, if both helpers support a common method for this I think we should just use it. The advantages are cosmetic. And as already explained, this is

Re: XS-Python-Version vs pyversions

2009-09-08 Thread anatoly techtonik
On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 1:00 PM, Steve Langasekvor...@debian.org wrote: Twas brillig at 02:42:09 08.09.2009 UTC-07 when vor...@debian.org did gyre and gimble:  SL Spare me your ignorant preaching and go read the mailing list  SL archives. Mailing list archives are not documentation.

Re: XS-Python-Version vs pyversions

2009-09-08 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mardi 08 septembre 2009 à 21:50 +0700, Mikhail Gusarov a écrit : Twas brillig at 16:42:41 08.09.2009 UTC+02 when pi...@debian.org did gyre and gimble: PO I.e. using build dependencies to determine[1] requested Python PO versions. Joss mentioned it on #debian-python recently so I guess

Re: XS-Python-Version vs pyversions

2009-09-08 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Tue, 08 Sep 2009 17:48:18 +0200 Josselin Mouette j...@debian.org wrote: Le mardi 08 septembre 2009 à 21:50 +0700, Mikhail Gusarov a écrit : Twas brillig at 16:42:41 08.09.2009 UTC+02 when pi...@debian.org did gyre and gimble: PO I.e. using build dependencies to determine[1] requested

Re: XS-Python-Version vs pyversions

2009-09-08 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mardi 08 septembre 2009 à 19:06 +0200, Piotr Ożarowski a écrit : Since the build-dep approach should have agreement from all the helper maintainers before it moves forward, I think it would be a good first step to mark pyversions deprecated (initially in favor of XS-* and later in

Re: XS-Python-Version vs pyversions

2009-09-08 Thread Piotr Ożarowski
[Josselin Mouette, 2009-09-08] I think that’s the most efficient approach indeed. For that, we need to either: * patch /usr/bin/pyversions to use them instead I will create a patch next week (my TODO list is too long to do it sooner) and will try to convince Matthias to apply it. --

Re: XS-Python-Version vs pyversions

2009-09-08 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Tue, 8 Sep 2009 19:06:17 +0200 Piotr O|arowski pi...@debian.org wrote: ... how about using build dependencies *if* pyversions and XS-P-V are not set and removing support of these fields once all packages will use the new approach? Seems reasonable. Scott K -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: XS-Python-Version vs pyversions

2009-09-08 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Tue, 08 Sep 2009 19:19:12 +0200 Josselin Mouette j...@debian.org wrote: Le mardi 08 septembre 2009 à 19:06 +0200, Piotr O|arowski a écrit : Since the build-dep approach should have agreement from all the helper maintainers before it moves forward, I think it would be a good first step

Re: XS-Python-Version vs pyversions

2009-09-08 Thread Tristan Seligmann
On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 6:45 PM, anatoly techtonik techto...@gmail.com wrote: Mailing lists are not documentation. Wiki is some kind of docs, but it still bears a high degree of uncertainty. This is missing the point. The original point of contention was whether or not certain communication