On Oct 26, 2010, at 03:15 PM, Steve Langasek wrote: >The problem here is that our python handling has been entirely designed >around the idea that each python extension should be packaged as a single >python-foo binary package containing support for all supported python >versions. So "support" does imply that the binaries for any extensions we >wish to include in that support, and which are also needed on the CD, >*will* be included on the CD image, at a fairly significant disk space cost. > >Unless we go back to the drawing board on how we want python packaging to >work, which I think would be unadvisable while we still haven't gotten a >clear consensus in the Debian Python community around the previous >iteration.
It would be worth spending some time in conjunction with the debian-python mailing list discussing this. At the moment, I don't have any bright ideas, and given that Squeeze is in freeze, and we're already on the hook for two fairly significant transitions (Python 2.7 and dh_python2), I'd say we need to defer this for now. -Barry
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