On 24 Nov, 12:42, "Jerzy Jalocha N" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I will try to contact whoever is responsible for the packaging of Python > in Ubuntu (or Debian), and ask them if they are willing to support the > _complete_ Python release.
They may already do so, but I'd argue that they could document the packages which provide the complete release a bit better if these are not already mentioned in /usr/share/doc/python/README.Debian or some similar file. By looking at the documentation for the Debian stable source package, I did manage to find a list of generated packages: http://packages.debian.org/source/etch/python-defaults Perhaps one of these contains the test files. Although such files are arguably only of use to people building Python, and such people would therefore obtain the source package in order to perform the build process, there could be some benefit in having a package which provides these files separately. For example, one may wish to verify the behaviour of an installed version or to test aspects of another implementation. I don't see a problem with you (or someone else) filing a bug about this, but then I'm not too familiar with the packaging policies of Debian with respect to Python. Paul -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list