Re: Any way to tweak build apt-listchanges for testing [Partial Results]

2003-10-14 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 12:30:27AM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: [... using python2.3 from testing, version 2.2.106] | I built the two packages and dpkg -i'd them. When I tried to run apt | I got the following: | | Traceback (most recent call last): | File /usr/bin/apt-listchanges, line 35, in ?

Re: freezing python packages until python-2.3 becomes the default in testing

2003-10-09 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 06:10:27AM +0930, Ron wrote: | Howdy, | | Forgive my apparent ignorance here, but I'm a little confused if I read | Matthias' message correctly. I don't understand how uploading a new | libwxgtk2.4-python package (which build-deps on python2.3) might hold | up python from

Re: Python policy update

2003-08-20 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 02:09:48PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: | In order to make it up to date, and to match current packaging | practices, I have prepared a draft for a python policy update. | It is available at: http://people.debian.org/~joss/python/ | | It includes clarifications, a new

Re: python 2.2 - python 2.3 transition

2003-08-19 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
I haven't sat down to respond before now, but I've been following the entire discussion. On Sat, Aug 16, 2003 at 11:07:26PM +1000, Donovan Baarda wrote: | On Sat, 2003-08-16 at 00:20, Matthias Klose wrote: | Donovan Baarda writes: | But that was kinda the point... you should be able to install

Re: python 2.2 - python 2.3 transition

2003-08-19 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 11:22:43AM +0200, Torsten Landschoff wrote: | On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 08:33:26AM -0500, John Goerzen wrote: | Now, I could do the dependency on python (= 2.2), python (2.3) thing. | But what would that gain me or users? I see no benefit there, other than | people

Re: python 2.2 - python 2.3 transition

2003-08-14 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 03:42:56PM +1000, Donovan Baarda wrote: | On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 23:33, John Goerzen wrote: | On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 02:14:55PM +1000, Donovan Baarda wrote: |Actually, all that have that are now uninstallable. Some important ones |have that, such as

Re: python 2.2 to python 2.3 transition

2003-08-12 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 12:38:16PM +1000, Donovan Baarda wrote: | On Mon, 2003-08-11 at 22:03, Matthias Urlichs wrote: | Hrm, this could be achieved quite simply, /methinks. It needs little | changes in dh_python and some prerm/postinst stuff in the python package | (not the pythonX.Y

Re: python 2.2 - python 2.3 transition

2003-08-05 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 10:31:53PM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: | With the next python2.3 upload, python2.3 becomes the default python | version. Nice! This is the way to work on breaking dedian's reputation of always being way behind. -D -- If Microsoft would build a car... ... Occasionally

Re: Error message from install of python packages

2003-03-24 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 08:35:13PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | What do these messages mean...?? | | Setting up python-gtk (0.6.11-7) ... | 'import site' failed; use -v for traceback | 'import site' failed; use -v for traceback When the python interpreter starts up it imports the site

Re: python-central 0.4

2002-09-29 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 08:19:49AM +1000, Donovan Baarda wrote: | On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 08:13:23AM +1200, Carey Evans wrote: | It also makes it easier for users to modify if a Python package's | dependencies are incorrect, and it stops compiling under a newer version | of Python, making