On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 01:07:21PM +1200, Carey Evans wrote: | D-Man <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | > Sure, but also consider older packages. For example, we are now | > moving to 2.0 (or 2.1) for the "default" python. We still want to | > provide 1.5.2 versions of all the other packages, so they should (now) | > specify that they don't work with >= 2.0 because we know that now. | | However, that can lead to packages breaking when a new version of | Python is installed, without pulling in the newer extension modules | and packages that use the new scope rules properly, and have variables | named "yield" and "div" renamed to something else, etc.
Yes. Maybe each extension should just depend on a single version of python and need to be rebuilt for each new python release. | dpkg and apt provide very good dependency checking, so we should try | to use it. Definitely. | Anyway, *do* we actually need all the extension modules for Python | 1.5.2? For Debian itself, there's Zope and Mailman, but they don't | depend on any other Python packages. reportbug uses python-newt, but | it should be changed once python-2.1 is available, so that Python | 1.5.2 isn't installed by default on new Debian 3.0 installations. | | Are there any other reasons to provide all the modules for Python | 1.5.2 (now more than two years old) in Debian 3.0? Who knows what people might be using that isn't packaged for Debian. | > Well, I have no fancy title (like "Debian Maintainer") so I really | > have no authority on the matter. The idea just came to me and it | > seemed pretty good so I thought I'd share it :-). You can do what you | > like with the idea. | | I probably shouldn't be using my @debian.org address for this Oh, I hadn't even paid any attention to that ;-). | discussion anyway; I've done one package upload in the last six | months, which hardly makes me an active Debian maintainer or any kind | of authority. ;-). | I'm not really talking just to you, but generally; by all means keep | coming up with ideas to improve the Debian Python packages, but please | don't keep Python 2.1 out of Debian 3.0! I agree! -D
