Question for the transition

2001-09-04 Thread Mikael Hedin
Hi, I'm probably missing something big, but here are my thoughts: Why mess with all these versioned python? Could we not have python-base (that will be version 2.1 soon), and for the ones who need, python-base-x.y? And the python-base will be the default/newest available? If packages install

Re: Question for the transition

2001-09-04 Thread Neil Schemenauer
Jérôme Marant: The major question is: do we still need to ship 1.5.2? Unfortunately, the old python seems to be necessary since some old packages are not compatible with 2.x versions. Do you know of any? If you can point them out I may be able to help fix them. Scott Moynes wrote: For

Re: Question for the transition

2001-09-04 Thread Jim Penny
On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 06:43:37PM -0400, Scott Moynes wrote: * Robert Kern ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: However, Zope 2.4.0 and up require Python 2.1. However, Debian only has Zope 2.3.3, although this may soon be remedied as a new stable version, 2.4.1, was released recently. This is not

Re: Question for the transition

2001-09-04 Thread Neil Schemenauer
Jim Penny wrote: This is not all that simple. python2.1 conflicts with zope2.3.x and python1.5 conflicts with zope2.4.x. In that case I think it's better to create python1.5 and zope2.3 legacy packages for people who can't upgrade. Neil

Re: Question for the transition

2001-09-04 Thread John Goerzen
Jim Penny [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This is not all that simple. python2.1 conflicts with zope2.3.x and python1.5 conflicts with zope2.4.x. Further, it is often the case that there is a fair amount of internal breakage when upgrading from one release of zope to another. It is not unusual

Re: Intent for NMU of python-2.1 packages

2001-09-04 Thread Jérôme Marant
Matthias Klose [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ... in June (2.1) and July (2.1.1). Gregor (the python-1.5 and python-2.0 maintainer) has put experimental packages at http://people.debian.org/~flight/python and was asking for help regarding the packaging (20010801). Jérôme Marant answered

Re: Intent for NMU of python-2.1 packages

2001-09-04 Thread Jérôme Marant
Gregor Hoffleit [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm still alive, I'm not lost ;-) You're not dead, which is the most important ;-) And that's the problem where I was stuck. The dependencies of the current experimental python1.5 packages aren't good enough to allow an easy upgrade from