Will this change affect 11.10 packages? I mean do we need seperate packaging for 11.10 and 12.04 now?
On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 4:16 PM, Martin Pitt <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello Ubuntu developers, > > TL;DR: For packages which use the new python gobject-introspection > bindings (from gi.repository import ...) instead of the old static > bindings ("import gobject"), please change "python-gobject" build and > binary dependencies to "python-gi". Same applies to python-gi-cairo. > and python-gi-dev. > > Background: > > The pygobject package has a bit of a complicated history. It started > with actually providing the "gobject" static binding and a few others > such as "glib", then the new GI bindings ("gi.repository") were > merged, and now it only contains the GI bindings and nothing else. We > now have a pygobject-2 source package which provides the old static > bindings for backwards compatibility. > > python-gobject is now a transitional package which pulls in both the > new python-gi and the compatibility python-gobject-2 packages. The > goal is to migrate everythign that uses GI to python-gi, so that it's > easier to see which packages still need to be ported, and that > pygobject-2 can eventually be removed. > > This change was already done for many packages in main, and I'll also > follow the progress and do some fixes there, but it's better if more > people than just me know the background and avoid introducing new > dependencies to python-gobject. > > Thanks! > > Martin > -- > Martin Pitt | http://www.piware.de > Ubuntu Developer (www.ubuntu.com) | Debian Developer (www.debian.org) > > -- > ubuntu-devel mailing list > [email protected] > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel > -- Owais Lone [email protected] http://www.owaislone.org -- ubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
