Use of former 'current' keyword with X-Python-Version

2012-03-17 Thread Scott Kitterman
There are four packages that use X-P-V and current. This has never been supported, so intead of silenting ignoring this, I'm going to (at some point) turn this into an error. Here's the DD list: Anton Gladky gmsh (U) Christophe Prud'homme gmsh (U) Christophe Trophime gmsh (U) Da

RFC: Specifying lists of versions

2012-03-17 Thread Scott Kitterman
I didn't make a patch for this one as I don't have a firm proposal. Currently Python policy says: Lists of multiple individual versions (e.g. 2.4, 2.5, 2.6) work for `XS- Python-Version' and will continue to be supported, but are not recommended and will not be supported by `X-Python-Version' o

Re: RFC: Adding discussion about required versions to Python policy

2012-03-17 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Saturday, March 17, 2012 07:18:59 PM Jakub Wilk wrote: > >The most common exception to this is architecture independent Python 3 > >modules with no version specific code. Since, unlike in Python, > >version specific directories are not needed for Python 3, there is no > >need to constrain th

Re: RFC: Adding discussion about required versions to Python policy

2012-03-17 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Scott Kitterman , 2012-03-17, 00:03: If the package supports all versions of Python/Python3 either supported in or planned for the development release, as well as the stable release, then `X-Python-Version' or `X-Python3-Version' may generally be omitted from `debian/control'. ACK The most

RFC: Clarifying version specific depends/provides in Python policy

2012-03-17 Thread Scott Kitterman
I've attached a patch (it's built on the last one I sent) that attempts to clarify policy around packages that only work with specific versions of Python/Python3. Here's what I attempted to do: - Changed should support the default version to should support all supported versions. - Dropped t

Re: Numpy & dh_python2

2012-03-17 Thread Thomas Kluyver
On 17 March 2012 15:00, Sandro Tosi wrote: > that stuff is done and the package is uploaded: Thanks for your contribution! Great, thanks for putting in the time to finalise it. Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-python-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Re: Numpy & dh_python2

2012-03-17 Thread Sandro Tosi
On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 00:09, Sandro Tosi wrote: > On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 15:05, Sandro Tosi wrote: >> Well, before I can say anything more I'll have to get my hands dirty. > > that I'm doing right away; I've committed your diff as you sent, and > I'm working on polishing it a bit, something in

Re: Possible misbuilt python3 module packages

2012-03-17 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Saturday, March 17, 2012 02:08:44 AM Scott Kitterman wrote: > On Thursday, March 15, 2012 12:02:42 PM Scott Kitterman wrote: > > Last night I uploaded an updated python3-defaults package to fix a > > problem where dh_python3 was not honoring version requirements set the > > -V option in debian/r

Re: Numpy & dh_python2

2012-03-17 Thread Sandro Tosi
On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 06:46, Matthias Klose wrote: > On 16.03.2012 14:29, Jakub Wilk wrote: >> >> * Matthias Klose , 2012-03-16, 13:36: >>> >>> re-adding myself as an uploader, apparently silently removed. >> >> >> Well, from my IRC log (2011-08-27): >> >> 22:43 < jwilk> morph_: Out of interest,

Re: Removing legacy XS-Python-Version support from python3-defaults

2012-03-17 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Friday, March 16, 2012 07:20:34 PM Scott Kitterman wrote: > When Squeeze was nearing freeze, the definition of some aspects of python3 > support were still new. There were some packages that used > XS-Python-Version in debian control, instead of X-Python3-Version. > > There are now none (one