Re: python MySQLdb no longer works

2006-08-22 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, 2006-08-22 at 16:14 -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote: > I update to 'testing' daily. Suddenly I can no longer connect to mysql > using python. This is the error traceback: > > What happened? How can I fix it? http://bugs.debian.org/383603 -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise signatur

Re: joining the python modules packaging team

2007-04-05 Thread Paul Wise
On 4/5/07, Michel Casabona <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'd like to join the team to maintain the python-hachoir packages that I build, which will be soon uploaded to debian (thanks a lot to Piotr Ożarowski), and help maintaining other packages if possible. Thanks heaps for that, hachoir sounds

Re: Debian 4.1 and Python 2.5

2008-02-14 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 7:49 PM, David Paleino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Those page I linked states that python2.5 is already in testing, not that it > will be the "default". I believe this should be asked on > [EMAIL PROTECTED] [1]: feel free to send a mail there and ask them > to keep you

Re: Python related changes for unstable/squeeze

2009-02-17 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 6:03 AM, Piotr Ożarowski wrote: > [Matthias Klose, 2009-02-16] >> Besides the "normal" pending update of the python version for the >> unstable distribution, there will be more changes around python >> packaging, including the introduction of python-3.x and addressing >> s

Re: Bzr lightweight checkout, bzr shallow branches, and git

2009-03-02 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 1:37 AM, Adeodato Simó wrote: > 3. Git > == > > Git has shallow clones, created with the --depth option for git-clone. > This cut-offs the history of the project past a certain point, but the > result is lacking: mainly, you cannot push your changes back. (You can > do

Re: Bzr lightweight checkout, bzr shallow branches, and git

2009-03-03 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 8:04 PM, Adeodato Simó wrote: >  A shallow repository has a number of limitations (you cannot clone >  or fetch from it, nor push from nor into it) [...] >                    ^ > > Can you confirm whether my reading of the underlined part was correct in > assumi

Re: Backporting to Etch

2009-05-15 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 7:18 PM, Andrew Malcolmson wrote: > This runs and informs me that the following dependencies are missing: > tk8.5-dev, libffi-dev (>= 3.0.5), libgpm2, python-sphinx > > How do I tell pbuilder that I don't need these features? >From the source directory, run dch --bpo and

Re: License entry in egg info files

2009-10-17 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 9:50 PM, Ben Finney wrote: > I disagree. This issue in the ‘setup.py’ settings is upstream's > responsibility. Lintian is best reserved for reporting problems that are > the Debian package maintainer's responsibility. Do you object to spelling-error-in-binary, duplicated-

Re: License entry in egg info files

2009-10-17 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 6:46 AM, Ben Finney wrote: > Paul Wise writes: > >> Do you object to spelling-error-in-binary, >> duplicated-key-in-desktop-entry, embedded-zlib, duplicate-font-file or >> the other lintian tests that check upstream stuff? > > I think they l

Bug#552001: RFP: pyquery -- A jQuery-like library for python

2009-10-22 Thread Paul Wise
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-python@lists.debian.org * Package name: pyquery Version : 0.3 Upstream Author : Olivier Lauzanne * URL : http://pyquery.org/ * License : BSD Programming Lang: Python Description : A jQuery-like libra

Re: pymol vs numpy conflict

2009-11-10 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 8:08 AM, Jeremiah H. Savage wrote: > However, a problem arises when I attempt to use pymol in the same > program. First, to use the pymol api, I add the following to > ~/.bashrc: > >    PYMOL_PATH=/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.5/pymol >    export PYMOL_PATH >    PYTHONPATH=$P

Re: Advice: how to effectively maintain pyparted in Debian?

2009-12-17 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 6:31 AM, Luca Falavigna wrote: > Recently, upstream declared that pyparted is bound to Fedora libparted, > and not with upstream [3], so I'm not sure future versions will be ever > supported by our libparted. Is the issue just that upstream has not yet released a new vers

Re: jQuery dependency for Trac 0.11 should be < 1.3

2009-12-25 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 7:06 AM, anatoly techtonik wrote: > Trac 0.11 ships with jQuery 1.2.6 > However, Debian patches remove this file in favor of libjs-jquery > package which contains version 1.3.x > This breaks plugins for Trac 0.11 that rely on 1.2.x jQuery features > removed in 1.3.x > > Ho

Re: jQuery dependency for Trac 0.11 should be < 1.3

2009-12-26 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 7:23 PM, anatoly techtonik wrote: > Upstream Trac is shipped with jQuery it needs while leaving Genshi and > other libraries as dependencies. Debian specific patch removes jQuery > from Trac distribution even though it contributes only 2% to package > size. This dependency

Re: RFS: openshot

2010-01-21 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 11:49 AM, Jonathan Thomas wrote: > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "openshot". I reviewed this package recently and concluded that it needs work: http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2010/01/msg00254.html -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise --

Re: Would like a sponsor to upload the new version of python-foolscap

2010-01-28 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 10:08 AM, Ben Finney wrote: > I would think a separate task tracker would be more appropriate; the > channel topic should remain primarily descriptive of the topic of the > channel, after all. I'd strongly suggest the use of PET (package entropy tracker) written by the Pe

Re: python2.6 vs python-json

2010-02-13 Thread Paul Wise
So basically, Python upstream hijacked a part of the import namespace. Unless they can be convinced to undo that, python-json is clearly at a disadvantage and future JSON consuming Python code will likely use the Python json module since it comes with Python. Therefore python-json needs to be remov

Re: RFS: pyrit

2010-05-20 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 9:24 PM, Christian Kastner wrote: > Pyrit is an excellent example of a GPGPU-driven application. It consists > of a main program and optional extensions for various GPGPU > technologies, such as NVIDIA CUDA and OpenCL. Do we have OpenCL support in Debian main? -- bye, p

Re: RFS: pyrit

2010-05-20 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 10:32 PM, Christian Kastner wrote: > On 05/20/2010 03:58 PM, Paul Wise wrote: >> Do we have OpenCL support in Debian main? > > Not yet, but it's being worked on. I've been in contact with the NVIDIA > Team, they expect the NVIDIA toolkit (with

Re: Policy for "Specifying Supported Versions" for Python3

2010-06-21 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 6:30 AM, Scott Kitterman wrote: > If we maintain a standard that if in Python you import foo, then the Python > package name is python-foo and the Python3 package is names python3-foo, I > would think this is manageable.  I think that adding this metapackage would > impose

Re: Policy for "Specifying Supported Versions" for Python3

2010-06-22 Thread Paul Wise
I don't agree with your analysis. I was hoping someone else would speak up before your proposal got implemented, but I can see that doesn't look like it will happen. I would like you to consult with a wider audience, at least -devel and -release, before Debian changes the python policy yet again.

Re: Proposed Email to the release team about XS/B-P-V

2010-06-23 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 1:15 AM, Scott Kitterman wrote: > In Debian Python we are currently discussing how best to specify version > information for Python 3.  There is a strong (but not unanimous) view among > the participants in debian-pyt...@l.d.o and #debian-python that Python(2) and > Python

Re: Proposed Email to the release team about XS/B-P-V

2010-06-23 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 10:42 AM, Scott Kitterman wrote: > The email is meant to go to the release team to address what I understand to > be release team specific requirement.  I think that the broader question needs > to be discussed in a broader audience. I think it is relevant there as well,

Re: python 2.6 deb for lenny ?

2010-06-25 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 1:19 AM, Toni Mueller wrote: > FWIW, I've just updated to 2.6.5. See > http://people.debian.org/~toni/python2.6/. > > The only thing I had to change was to set the libdb-dev dependency from > 4.8 to 4.7, but then, I only compiled on my workstation, which might be > infecte

Re: karaage

2010-07-15 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 8:03 AM, Brian May wrote: > On issue that has been nagging us - what is the best way to handle > python based config files? e.g. the settings.py file that is standard > for Django applications? This sounds like more of a question for the webapps list. My standard answer f

Re: Packages whith “except” overwriting builtins

2010-08-03 Thread Paul Wise
2010/8/3 Jakub Wilk : > You might be easily mislead into thinking that this code ... > will catch both IOError and OSError exceptions. In fact, it will not, as it > is more or less equivalent to: ... > There are about 50 packages in the archive whose developers make this kind > of mistake. I have a

Re: Packages whith “except” overwriting builtins

2010-08-03 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 10:50 PM, Tristan Seligmann wrote: > How would you implement the warning? There's no way to easily tell > whether a given name is an existing class name or not. Using whatever method Jakub used to create his list, if it is implementable in perl that is. Actually, is there

Re: Packages whith “except” overwriting builtins

2010-08-04 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 3:43 AM, W. Martin Borgert wrote: > There are pychecker, pyflakes, and pylint in Debian. > This specific case raises a warning in pylint, if I'm not mistaken. Thanks for the info, I've added these package names to the DebianMentorsNet wiki page listing feature wishlists fo

Re: Packages whith “except” overwriting builtins

2010-08-09 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 12:20 PM, Jakub Wilk wrote: > I checked only for built-in exception names, which should cover most cases. > A simple regex like: Thanks. > Also, feel free to file a bug against lintian. :) Done (#592379). This will probably end up as a wishlist against pyflakes and a pyf

common issue: setlocale handling?

2010-08-22 Thread Paul Wise
Hi all, I recently got a bug filed on iotop about its setlocale handling (#593846). With a quick grep of my system I can see code in the following packages that looks like they would probably have the same issue: python-xdg virt-manager virtinst iotop mercurial-common python-hachoir-metadata ink

Re: common issue: setlocale handling?

2010-08-22 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 3:40 PM, Jakub Wilk wrote: > I don't think this is a bug at all. I'd rather say it's an user error. I disagree, stuff written in C or Perl doesn't crash when the locale is not set properly and neither should stuff written in Python. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/

Re: Skip Python 2.6 and use 2.7 as default in Squeeze?

2010-08-31 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 6:33 AM, Marian Sigler wrote: >> Given how much work is required to change the default Python, does it >> make sense to just skip Python 2.6 and use 2.7 as the default Python >> version in Squeeze? > What has emerged here? I see that it won't be the default, but will it > b

Python 2.6 release candidate in squeeze?

2010-09-10 Thread Paul Wise
Hi all, Looks like python2.6 2.6.6-3 was intended for sqeeze, is that the case Matthias? A summary of the changes: Two new upstreams (rc2 and final 2.6.6) One RC bug (#590138) One CVE (CVE-2010-1634) Two regressions (upstream #8688, LP #615240) Disabling some tests http://packages.debian.org/ch

Re: common issue: setlocale handling?

2010-09-24 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 8:17 PM, Barry Warsaw wrote: > My guess is that you'd get a lot of push back from folks in python-dev.  Won't > a change like this have the potential to produce confusing, wrong, or hard to > track down bugs?  This kind of implicit behavior change seems to run counter > to

Re: question about packaging a python-based software that ships a shared object library file

2010-10-24 Thread Paul Wise
I'm doing what you propose with fonttools and I like the solution. If upstream is shipping it as a private extension, keeping it that way is a good idea. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-python-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubsc

Re: Untrusted search path vulnerabilities

2010-11-18 Thread Paul Wise
> On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 22:58, Jakub Wilk wrote: >> A number of packages in the archive sets the PYTHONPATH environment variable >> in an insecure way. They do something like: >> >>      PYTHONPATH=/spam/eggs:$PYTHONPATH >> >> This is wrong, because if PYTHONPATH were originally unset or empty,

Re: Packaging Django applications and projects

2011-03-08 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 9:50 PM, Zygmunt Krynickiu wrote: > I'd like to define and document the recommended best practice of packaging > Django 1.0+ (and especially 1.3) web applications and projects for Debian. I > started this on the Debian wiki at > http://wiki.debian.org/DjangoPackagingDraft

Bug#622239: RFP: python-iview -- alternative frontend to ABC iView

2011-04-11 Thread Paul Wise
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-de...@lists.debian.org, debian-python@lists.debian.org * Package name: python-iview Version : 0.2 Upstream Author : Jeremy Visser * URL : http://jeremy.visser.name/2009/08/30/python-iview/ * License : GPL

Re: list of package for python_support -> dh_python2 ?

2011-06-09 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 1:40 AM, Barry Warsaw wrote: > What is the process for deprecating python-support?  Who makes that decision? Add a lintian warning saying that it is deprecated. Wait. File bugs on all packages using it. Remove it and anything still depending on it. The maintainer is respon

restarting processes when python libraries are upgraded?

2011-06-19 Thread Paul Wise
Hi all, Since python doesn't keep .py files open its hard to use things like checkrestart to find out which servers to restart when upgrading a python library for security updates. I wonder if a dpkg triggers based mechanism could perform this function. Any thoughts? -- bye, pabs http://wiki.de

Re: python2.7 as default: where are we? (Was: Bug#641207: ITP: ordereddict)

2011-09-11 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 11:38 PM, Luca Falavigna wrote: > Would it be possible to draw a map of things still to finish before > attempting to switch default to 2.7? There are a couple of resources > already ([0] and [1]), are there other useful bits around? The same as the release.d.o bug, but:

Re: may be a logo?

2011-09-14 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 3:41 AM, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: > Do we have a logo for our Python-In-Debian effort(s) (was needing one > for a recent talk but failed to deliver in time)?  What about > having one?  I am not a designer and possibly lacking any taste, so > please do not judge wildly.  Wh

Re: Request for packaging - Nuitka the Python Compiler

2011-10-12 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 6:47 AM, Kay Hayen wrote: > Currently I am just trying to be a good upstream. On that topic, we have a bunch of good links and some Debian-specific information about how to be a good upstream here: http://wiki.debian.org/UpstreamGuide I would personally add "don't use SC

Re: Request for packaging - Nuitka the Python Compiler

2011-10-13 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, 2011-10-13 at 09:18 +0200, Nicolas Chauvat wrote: > If and only if you were to consider replacing SCons, take a look at > waf that has many qualities. http://code.google.com/p/waf/ Please do not look at waf, it is worse than scons, which is why it was removed from Debian. -- bye, pabs

Re: Alternate way to contact Python-modules-team mailing list?

2011-10-19 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 12:51 AM, Paul Elliott wrote: >> returned was: 550 550-Blacklisted URL in message. (blackpatchpanel.com) in >> [black]. See 550 http://lookup.uribl.com. (state 18). If you read the error message you would have noticed that your blackpatchpanel.com domain has been blocked b

Re: Python 3 packaging

2011-10-29 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 2:05 AM, Thomas Kluyver wrote: > I've been having a go at repackaging some Python modules where I know the > same codebase can be compiled for Python 3. Any chance someone could update numpy for Python 3 (#601593)? I need it for testing a Python 3 patch for fonttools upst

Re: How do I add support for python3 to my package?

2011-11-17 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 7:55 PM, Stefano Rivera wrote: > Hi Paul (2011.11.17_12:05:46_+0200) >> I created a package with py2dsc. After some tweeks, it works correctly. The >> upstream says package also works with python 3. How do I alter my source >> package to also produce a python 3 version? > >

Re: "search.html doesn't look like a Sphinx search page"

2012-02-23 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 6:53 AM, Jakub Wilk wrote: > Also, please remove Google Analytics code, and references to other > JavaScript code and CSS hosted on external websites. I don't want to be > tracked when viewing local documentation. :< That sounds like an RC bug; things in main depending on

Re: "search.html doesn't look like a Sphinx search page"

2012-02-24 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 8:13 PM, Pietro Battiston wrote: > If there is consensus (and I guess it would be good to find it), I > wasn't able to detect it... > http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2011/05/msg00194.html > > Notice I _did_ provide locally some javascript libraries which (the > upstr

Re: warning: symbol PyLong_FromUnsignedLong...

2012-04-11 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 11:43 PM, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: >  I am trying to remove the remaining warnings from the gdcm/python > package. They can be seen here: That is pretty normal for plugins on Linux; the symbols are provided by the program that loads the plugins and the plugins do not refer

Re: warning: symbol PyLong_FromUnsignedLong...

2012-04-12 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 3:04 PM, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > I am trying to remove the annoying 'todo' section of the gdcm package page: > > http://packages.qa.debian.org/g/gdcm.html > > If this was a lintian false positive, one would use > *.lintian-overrides file. However in this case I did not k

Re: pythonX.Y maintenance team

2012-04-14 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 9:26 PM, Scott Kitterman wrote: > times when the only 'solution' available is a short term hack that's needed > for Ubuntu's time based release schedule that isn't appropriate to Debian's > approach of doing things right and releasing when ready. Why are short term hacks O

Re: how to take a public package private?

2012-04-28 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 10:54 PM, Paul Elliott wrote: > I mean move it from the standard place, to a package specific place. > I mean move it to a package specific directory. Michelle seems to be confused. Michelle was talking about the location of the binary and source packages, rather than your

Re: Porting UberWriter to Debian

2012-09-24 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 5:07 PM, Hadret wrote: > I'm working on packing UberWriter (http://lauchpad.net/uberwriter) > software. Basically everything is working flawlessly, except one file: > locales.db. I'm using plain dh_python2 to build the package and this > is the only file, which isn't provi

Re: PyCon 2013 -- tentative title/abstract/outline -- feedback plz

2012-09-28 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 9:47 PM, Paul Tagliamonte wrote: > ^^ this is a great idea. It'd be nice if we could prototype a flake8 / > pyflakes run against the archive, and filter for serious errors We did do that at one point with pyflakes: http://qa.debian.org/daca/pyflakes/sid/ Unfortunately no

Re: Solving the multiarch triplet once and for all

2012-12-18 Thread Paul Wise
Seems like a lot of effort when there is no /usr/bin//python so there can be only one arch of python installed anyway. What are the use-cases for python multiarch? -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-python-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: Solving the multiarch triplet once and for all

2012-12-18 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 12:29 AM, Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote: > cross-compiling the archive / cross-bootstrapping the archive for a > new architecture. I suppose cross-compiling will be useful but I didn't think python was part of the build-essential set that must be cross-compilable, is that actuall

Re: How does team maintenace of python module works?

2013-02-20 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 12:37 PM, Scott Kitterman wrote: > That's the sort of thing that convinces me it's too hard. The fact that I > have to manually make the association between individual local and remove > branches is just insane. This has changed with git from experimental, it sets up the

Bug#701222: RFP: dnsgraph -- trace and graph all resolution paths for DNS names

2013-02-22 Thread Paul Wise
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-python@lists.debian.org * Package name: dnsgraph Upstream Author : Dennis Kaarsemaker * URL : https://github.com/seveas/dnsgraph * License : MIT Programming Lang: Python Description : trace and graph all resolu

Bug#705339: RFP: python-pyephem -- scientific-grade astronomical computations for Python

2013-04-13 Thread Paul Wise
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-scie...@lists.debian.org, debian-python@lists.debian.org * Package name: python-pyephem Upstream Author : Brandon Craig Rhodes * URL : http://rhodesmill.org/pyephem/ * License : GPL/LGPL Programming Lang: C, Python

Re: how could I help?

2013-06-20 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 6:40 PM, Stéphane Blondon wrote: > Do you think I could help? If yes, how? A number of parts of Debian infrastructure are written in python, if you wanted to help out our core teams by writing python that would be great. There are dak (ftp team), ud (sysadmin team), vario

Re: Inconsistency in source package naming for python modules

2013-07-10 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 3:54 AM, Thomas Goirand wrote: > Oh, I need this pyX package... Let's download it. I assume here you mean "I need whatever package provides 'import pyX' for python"? If so this is solvable using something like DEP-11 that maps package names to things that they provide (sha

Re: Inconsistency in source package naming for python modules

2013-07-11 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 12:22 AM, Thomas Goirand wrote: > I've seen both cases in the archive! DEP-11 FTW. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-python-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debia

Re: PEP 453 affects Debian packaging of Python packages

2013-09-18 Thread Paul Wise
We don't do "private copies" or "bundled copies" in Debian, so I guess the right way to go for Debian is to have python depend on python-pip and python3 depend on python3-pip? http://wiki.debian.org/EmbeddedCodeCopies -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to d

Re: PEP 453 affects Debian packaging of Python packages

2013-09-18 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 4:33 PM, Scott Kitterman wrote: > P.S. I'm not nominating myself to be the diplomat that talks to upstream for > what are probably obvious reasons. Too late, upstream folks (for eg Barry Warsaw) are on this list, are DDs and are part of the Debian Python community so you

Re: about python-oauth2: CVE-2013-4347

2013-10-08 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 5:46 AM, Philippe Makowski wrote: > do you think that for fixing that, using > > return ''.join(random.choice('abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz123456789') for > i in xrange(length)) ... > would be an acceptable fix ? No, from the announcement of this issue on oss-sec: ... the Py

Re: Using ‘export http_proxy = http://127.0.9.1:9/’ to fail noisily on dependency problems

2013-10-14 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 1:47 AM, Thomas Goirand wrote: > I've read multiple times that they do. Could you show a build log where > something is downloaded? At around 24:30 in the DebConf13 cross-compiler BoF a discussion about -source packages, build-depends on foo:src/foo:build-deps and apt-get

Re: Packaging AngularJS application as part of the python twisted application

2013-10-15 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 7:54 AM, Ben Finney wrote: > I think we're going to have to (as the Debian Python community? as the > broader Debian maintainer community?) come up with a unified approach to > dealing with the rapidly increasing tendency for upstream releases > bundling doing this. Upstre

Re: uninstalling issue of a local Debian package

2013-10-27 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 1:52 AM, Florian Rothmaier wrote: > I'm an astro-physicist working for the Virtual Observatory project at > the University of Heidelberg. Awesome! > What is the reason behind this issue? It sounds like your prerm is missing the code needed to delete the .pyc files. For d

Re: Best practice: exclude generated ‘foo.egg-info’ files from source and VCS

2013-11-24 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 5:55 AM, Ben Finney wrote: > Since Distutils is the officially supported standard for Python It is probably about time it were demoted from that. Not supporting dependency information in a useful way is not really acceptable today. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/Pa

Re: Recommending get-orig-source for packages ?

2013-12-03 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 11:42 PM, Olivier Berger wrote: > I haven't spotted anything recommending a get-orig-source target in > debian/rules in the team's docs. Policy recommends it, that should be enough? http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-source.html#s-debianrules -- bye, pabs http:/

Re: Recommending get-orig-source for packages ?

2013-12-03 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 10:36 AM, Stuart Prescott wrote: > tl;dr: is get-orig-source supposed to be a duplicate of uscan (d/watch) or > apt-get source? Neither. As policy attempts to explain, get-orig-source is for the cases where the Debian orig tarball is not bit-for-bit identical to the upstrea

Re: Recommending get-orig-source for packages ?

2013-12-04 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 3:43 PM, Andreas Tille wrote: > That's in devscripts git and will be included in the next devscripts > version. (see [1]) Awesome, thanks for your work on that. That said, the choice of debian/copyright as the location for files to be excluded seems awkward/weird. I would

Re: QA Developer overview, compared with PET

2014-01-26 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 7:37 AM, Ben Finney wrote: > Thanks for bringing PET to my attention. But I wonder whether it's > unused for good reason? The only reason it is unused is people don't know about it or forget it exists. > What does PET do which the Packages Overview tool does not? It look

Re: Future of django-pagination in Debian

2014-02-11 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 11:02 AM, Andrew Starr-Bochicchio wrote: > Any one have any opinions? How does the upstream Django community recommend to do pagination? -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-python-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: RFS: Pyspread 0.2.6-1

2014-02-18 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 7:48 PM, Andreas Noteng wrote: > Pyspread works just fine without ttf-mscorefonts-installer, so I guess > suggests would be a better choice anyway. The tests will fail without the > package though. Is it OK to include ttf-mscorefonts-installer as a test > dependency in debi

Re: Python 3.4 and ensurepip (rehashed, long)

2014-03-20 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 5:40 AM, Barry Warsaw wrote: > I: Should we follow Fedora? > > Fedora is discussing some of these issues too[6]. Looks like one of their > devs created an rpm->wheel conversion script so that if you pip install a > package from the archive, it'll get the rpm, convert it to

Re: favouring Python3 in the Debian policy

2014-05-07 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 10:45 PM, Matthias Klose wrote: > Attached is a proposed change to the Debian Python policy to focus on Python3 > within the distribution. The intent is to document and start a large journey > towards one Python stack in Debian. This is unlikely to happen for jessie+1, > b

restarting services after security upgrades in pure-Python modules?

2014-05-15 Thread Paul Wise
Hi all, Anyone know if it is possible to detect processes that are using old versions of pure-Python modules after security upgrades to them? -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Embedded six.py in many packages: can someone add a lintian check?

2014-05-29 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 10:53 PM, Barry Warsaw wrote: > One of the things I want to add to my mythical PEP are at least declarations > of vendored packages. What tool do people use to do vendorising? Maybe that could be patched to include a file containing info about which projects were vendorise

Re: Embedded six.py in many packages: can someone add a lintian check?

2014-05-29 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 11:13 PM, Barry Warsaw wrote: > On May 29, 2014, at 10:58 PM, Paul Wise wrote: > >>On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 10:53 PM, Barry Warsaw wrote: >> >>> One of the things I want to add to my mythical PEP are at least declarations >>> of vendore

Re: RFS: python-rarfile/2.6-1 [ITP] -- RAR archive reader module for Python

2014-06-09 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 4:21 AM, Hugo Lefeuvre wrote: > It builds the python-rarfile package, which provides an RAR archive > reader module for Python. More informations can be obtained from the > following URLs: I don't intend to sponsor this but here are some comments: It looks like upstream i

Re: Upload of python-networkx 1.9

2014-06-25 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 3:41 PM, Thomas Goirand wrote: > * New upstream release (Closes: #750233). I think you meant this instead: * New upstream release - Fixes test failures (Closes: #750233). https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/best-pkging-practices.html#bpp-debian-chan

Re: Passing arguments to nosetests in debian/rules:override_dh_auto_test

2014-07-06 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 2:45 AM, Josue Ortega wrote: > How can I pass them? and which is the right way to do it? According to the nosetests manual page the right way to do it is for upstream to delete the options from the Makefile and from travis.yaml and put them in a [nosetests] section in the s

Re: apache2.2 / apache2.4 config

2014-07-16 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 9:11 AM, Brian May wrote: > Anyone got any better ideas? Something like this for the configuration: /etc/apache2/conf-available/someconf-2.x.conf: # All the common config options here /etc/apache2/conf-available/someconf-2.2.conf: Allow from all Include /etc/apache2/conf

Re: Help with old mathplotlib API (nxutils) needed

2014-09-10 Thread Paul Wise
The mathplotlib API changes document recommends switching from matplotlib.nxutils to matplotlib.path.Path.contains_point and friends. http://matplotlib.org/api/api_changes.html#id1 Also I used codesearch.d.n and found some code which supports both versions of the mathplotlib API: http://sources.

Re: Speech Input

2015-01-11 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 6:19 PM, chaitanya sai alaparthi wrote: > ... takes the help of google speech recogniton api ... This means that the software relies on proprietary software and transmits user data over the Internet to Google. If you put this in Debian it will have to go to contrib and it

Re: Debian uscan redirector for PyPI (was: PyPI and debian/watch)

2015-02-04 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 6:53 AM, Tianon Gravi wrote: > Checking out http://pypi.debian.net/hy, it looks pretty easy to use. :) Could someone document this on the debian/watch wiki page please? -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-python-requ...@lis

Re: Debian uscan redirector for PyPI (was: PyPI and debian/watch)

2015-02-04 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 6:53 AM, Tianon Gravi wrote: > Checking out http://pypi.debian.net/hy, it looks pretty easy to use. :) Could whoever created this add a page to the Debian services census? https://wiki.debian.org/Services -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIB

Re: Python 2 d-d-a proposal

2015-04-15 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 4:48 AM, Scott Kitterman wrote: > You might also ask Debian teams using Python in the Debian infrastructure to > review their packaged dependencies and identify any that aren't available for > Python3. We'll need to know that soon so we can work on porting > dependencies/f

Python and Debian infrastructure

2015-04-15 Thread Paul Wise
In addition to the Python 3 related work: Port service dependencies to Python 3. Port service code-bases to Python 3. We also need to: Port Django based services to Django 1.7 Port services based on Pylons (deprecated) to something else like Django: snapshot.debian.org debexpo (mentors.debian.

Re: Python and Debian infrastructure

2015-04-16 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 10:48 PM, Jan Dittberner wrote: > Pyramid is a bit more lightweight Flask might be another option for lightweight framework needs. > Paul already suggested to merge debianmemberportfolio with db.debian.org but > I did not have time to evaluate that option yet. That is an

Re: Offer to help with Python 2 porting

2015-04-16 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 10:10 AM, Bryan Shook wrote: > I saw Paul Tagliamonte's post to the debian-devel-announce list. I'd be > interested in assisting with this project. I wrote some ctypes Python code > that interacted with a Windows DLL. I ran into a lot of String encoding > situations with

Re: Sphinx 1.3 in Debian experimental

2015-06-29 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 4:14 AM, Barry Warsaw wrote: > Maybe upstream would accept a patch similar to what I've done before. It > could map |today| to the value of an environment variable, if it's set. > E.g. something like SPHINX_TODAY. Then pybuild, dh_python{2,3}, or some other > infrastructu

Re: Dealing with flit -- a simplified packaging of python modules

2015-09-24 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Sep 20, 2015 at 12:47 PM, Thomas Kluyver wrote: > However, my hope in that sentence was that other packaging will come not > to rely on Python sdists containing a setup.py file. Using sdists for > Debian packaging is already somewhat dubious, because they can contain > generated and bundle

Re: Dealing with flit -- a simplified packaging of python modules

2015-09-25 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 1:17 PM, Thomas Kluyver wrote: > That's my point ;-). From our upstream point of view, it's not a bug > that the distributions we put on PyPI contain generated/bundled files - > we do it that way deliberately, so that end users can install without > needing Javascript devel

Re: Dealing with flit -- a simplified packaging of python modules

2015-09-26 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, 2015-09-25 at 19:25 -0400, Donald Stufft wrote: > Because the way Python packaging currently is and historically has > been, binary packages are not something that is widely available or > viable. Hmm, I thought eggs have been around for ages (seems about 8 years)? -- bye, pabs https:/

Re: Dealing with flit -- a simplified packaging of python modules

2015-09-27 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Sep 26, 2015 at 5:21 AM, Donald Stufft wrote stuff Thanks for the summary, it sounds like the Python community is slowly moving towards a setup that is more closely aligned with Debian's values and setup. -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise

Re: get started with building own packages

2015-10-02 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Oct 2, 2015 at 1:48 PM, Cornelius Kölbel wrote: > At the moment I have a package > > privacyidea-apache2 and privacyidea-nginx, > which both require python-privacyidea, the webserver, database... An alternative might be to depend on httpd, dbcommon-config and then on package install, dete

Re: get started with building own packages

2015-10-02 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Oct 2, 2015 at 4:04 PM, Cornelius Kölbel wrote: > Ah, so apache2 and nginx provide httpd. I was not aware of this. Yes, along with a lot of other web servers. You could also just depend on apache2 | nginx since there is no way to generate configuration for all web servers and you probably

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