Re: Coordinated effort to update python packages

2006-06-14 Thread Pierre Habouzit
Le Mar 13 Juin 2006 20:38, Raphael Hertzog a écrit : For NMUers, always start by filling a bug report refering to this announce, register the bug number and your intent to work on it in the wiki page, do the work, send the patch to the BTS and upload the package appropriately (using a DELAYED

request for NMUs [Was: Coordinated effort to update python packages]

2006-06-14 Thread Robert Jordens
Hello! [Tue, 13 Jun 2006] Raphael Hertzog wrote: If you don't have time to do this now, please reply on debian-python@lists.debian.org and allow us to make NMU of your packages. I wont have much time to fix my packages so please feel free to NMU any of them: Robert Jordens [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Coordinated effort to update python packages

2006-06-14 Thread Piotr Ozarowski
Graham Wilson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): What if user will change his default python version (f.e. if his scripts will use /usr/bin/env python, or simply he will start his script with pythonX.Y)? I'm not sure I understand your question. Why would the user change his default Python version? How

Re: Coordinated effort to update python packages

2006-06-14 Thread Graham Wilson
On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 11:45:32PM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: that is correct. OTOH, each new upload to unstable may add a new dependency on a newly uploaded library having a more strict dependency or a new soname. If you build for the version we transition from, and for the version we

Re: Coordinated effort to update python packages

2006-06-14 Thread Graham Wilson
On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 11:06:53PM +0200, Piotr Ozarowski wrote: He can simply change /usr/bin/python symlink (that's very bad, but it's possible) To be honest, I don't think it's worth supporting that, since the user is basically breaking his Python install. or if he will need some features

Re: Coordinated effort to update python packages

2006-06-13 Thread Mike Hommey
On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 08:38:57PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, the Python team has agreed on a new policy [1]. As we want to do the python 2.4 transition now, we need to make sure the packages match the policy. This will limit the amount of broken packages when

Re: Coordinated effort to update python packages

2006-06-13 Thread Andreas Barth
* Mike Hommey ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [060613 21:29]: PPS: I'll take care of libxml2 and libxslt as soon as I understand what I'm supposed to change. Please don't upload libxml2 until the current version either hits testing or is RC-buggy. Thanks. Cheers, Andi --

Re: Coordinated effort to update python packages

2006-06-13 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Tue, 13 Jun 2006, Mike Hommey wrote: So please check in the list at the end of this mail if you're concerned, and if yes, please update your packages following these instructions: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianPython/NewPolicy http://people.debian.org/~piman/python-policy/ Maybe I'm

Re: Coordinated effort to update python packages

2006-06-13 Thread Mike Hommey
On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 09:55:08PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When you install some python extensions (.so), it is common that they come with associated .py files (modules). Those .py files usually are the same in /usr/lib/python2.3 and /usr/lib/python2.4, that's why

Re: Coordinated effort to update python packages

2006-06-13 Thread Joe Wreschnig
On Tue, 2006-06-13 at 22:05 +0200, Mike Hommey wrote: On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 09:55:08PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When you install some python extensions (.so), it is common that they come with associated .py files (modules). Those .py files usually are the same in

Re: Coordinated effort to update python packages

2006-06-13 Thread Graham Wilson
On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 09:55:08PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: OK, then indicate current in XS-Python-Version and support only the current version in python-xpcom (make sure to generate the provides field). Speaking of this, I have a module (python-pyx) that I think is only used by end-users

Re: Coordinated effort to update python packages

2006-06-13 Thread Piotr Ozarowski
Graham Wilson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Speaking of this, I have a module (python-pyx) that I think is only used by end-users (not applications), so I think it makes sense to only install modules and extensions for the current version. Does this make sense? What if default python version will

Re: Coordinated effort to update python packages

2006-06-13 Thread Matthias Klose
Graham Wilson writes: On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 11:22:27PM +0200, Piotr Ozarowski wrote: Graham Wilson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Speaking of this, I have a module (python-pyx) that I think is only used by end-users (not applications), so I think it makes sense to only install modules and

Re: Coordinated effort to update python packages

2006-06-13 Thread Matthias Klose
Mike Hommey writes: On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 09:55:08PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When you install some python extensions (.so), it is common that they come with associated .py files (modules). Those .py files usually are the same in /usr/lib/python2.3 and