Re: Question for the transition

2001-09-05 Thread Bruce Sass
On Tue, 4 Sep 2001, Neil Schemenauer wrote: > 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

Re: My proposal about sys.path

2001-09-05 Thread Neil Schemenauer
Jérôme Marant wrote: > Would you please comment on this? Looks reasonable to me. Neil

Experimental Python packages

2001-09-05 Thread Neil Schemenauer
See here: http://people.debian.org/~nas/woody/ The source packages I have are: python_2.1.1 python1.5_1.5.2 zope2.3.3 These create the following binary packages: python-base python-dev python-elisp python-examples python-gdbm python-mpz python-regrte

My proposal about sys.path

2001-09-05 Thread Jérôme Marant
Hi, One month ago, I posted this: http://lists.debian.org/debian-python/2001/debian-python-200108/msg3.html but I got no reply. Would you please comment on this? Thanks. -- Jérôme Marant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Proposal for transition--FRD

2001-09-05 Thread Carey Evans
Mikael Hedin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] > Why not the exciting name "python"? And confilcts with python-base? > Then all the module that depend on python-base (xxx) to be either > upgrader or removed. Am I right? There's quite a few packages that depend on "python", which is a virtual pa

Re: Intent for NMU of python-2.1 packages

2001-09-05 Thread Bruce Sass
On 4 Sep 2001, David Maslen wrote: > Gregor Hoffleit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > How does that sound ? > > I think it sounds like an awful lot of work. I still don't really > understand why we keep python1.5, but presumably there are some good > reasons, and I trust the debian team to have thr

Re: Proposal for transition--FRD

2001-09-05 Thread Mikael Hedin
Carey Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Mikael Hedin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > [...] > > > 6) All packages with files in .../python1.5/ without versioned depends > > get a critical bug. > > Unfortunately, this leaves someone's system broken if they just > install some Python packages, a

Re: Question for the transition

2001-09-05 Thread Neil Schemenauer
Jérôme Marant wrote: > Neil Schemenauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Do you know of any? If you can point them out I may be able to help fix > > them. > > Zope 2.3x was the most obvious example. I don't know if python-ldap can > work with 2.x too. All python packages that provide binary mo

Re: Proposal for transition--FRD

2001-09-05 Thread Carey Evans
Mikael Hedin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] > 6) All packages with files in .../python1.5/ without versioned depends > get a critical bug. Unfortunately, this leaves someone's system broken if they just install some Python packages, and leave the packages that currently depend on "python-base

Proposal for transition--FRD

2001-09-05 Thread Mikael Hedin
Hi, from the thread I started, I propose we try this: 1) Every package that depend on python checks if it works with python 2.1. 2) We upload python-base v. 2.1, and most of the packages will have to make a new upload (depend on python-base (>=2.1 && << 2.2) if anything installed in .../python2

Re: Question for the transition

2001-09-05 Thread Jérôme Marant
Neil Schemenauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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 o

Re: Question for the transition

2001-09-05 Thread David Maslen
Neil Schemenauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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. I p