Re: Python transition

2003-10-13 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 01:49:46PM -0500, John Goerzen wrote: > On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 08:29:12PM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: > > Packages, that are too young are not considered for migration to > > testing. As these packages have a dependency on "python (>=2.3)", they > > Few, if any, of my pac

Re: Summary of python transition problems

2003-10-13 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 10:55:54AM +1000, Donovan Baarda wrote: > On Wed, 2003-10-08 at 03:28, Matthias Klose wrote: > > It does help for python applications, which depend on an explicit > > python version. I did not count packages with a 'python2.3 (>= 2.3)' > > dependency. > > I would argue that

Re: Summary of python transition problems

2003-10-13 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 07:28:23PM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: > Colin Watson writes: > > For what it's worth, I think a python-defaults source package or some > > such would help: at the moment there are several packages needlessly > > stalled on python2.3, even though their dependencies are simp

Re: Summary of python transition problems

2003-10-13 Thread Matthias Klose
Colin Watson writes: > > The only reason to put a version on a "pythonX.Y" dependency would be if > > you know there was a particular version of pythonX.Y that your package > > doesn't work with. > > The versioned dependency is probably generated automatically by > dpkg-shlibdeps: > > $ cat /va

Re: Summary of python transition problems

2003-10-13 Thread Matthias Klose
Colin Watson writes: > On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 07:28:23PM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: > > Colin Watson writes: > > > For what it's worth, I think a python-defaults source package or some > > > such would help: at the moment there are several packages needlessly > > > stalled on python2.3, even tho

Re: Summary of python transition problems

2003-10-13 Thread Donovan Baarda
On Tue, 2003-10-14 at 04:29, Matthias Klose wrote: > Colin Watson writes: > > On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 07:28:23PM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: > > > Colin Watson writes: > > > > For what it's worth, I think a python-defaults source package or some > > > > such would help: at the moment there are sev