Re: Hunting useless binary packages

2005-06-13 Thread Cedric Delfosse
Le lundi 13 juin 2005 à 22:24 +0200, Josselin Mouette a écrit : [...] > 3. In most cases, they are useless. The python policy allows such > packages for cases where a specific python version is required > by a reverse dependencies. However, it should have been the > exc

Re: Hunting useless binary packages

2005-06-13 Thread Thomas Viehmann
Hi Josselin. Josselin Mouette wrote: > 3. In most cases, they are useless. The python policy allows such > packages for cases where a specific python version is required > by a reverse dependencies. However, it should have been the > exception and not the rule. That's

Hunting useless binary packages

2005-06-13 Thread Josselin Mouette
I've been arguing about this issue on a case by case basis, but having a look at the archive makes me think we need more radical action. For a great bunch of python packages, there is one source providing python2.2-foo, python2.3-foo and even python2.4-foo. Even for packages with a very few (or eve

Re: Let's think about removing Python 2.1 and 2.2

2005-06-13 Thread Donovan Baarda
On Sun, 2005-06-12 at 13:40, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > I once had a discussion with Matthias Klose about reducing the number > of Python versions in Debian and he said he'd like to get rid of 2.1 > and 2.2 after sarge is out. If I remember correctly, a problem is > that 2.1 is needed by Jython and

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Re: Let's think about removing Python 2.1 and 2.2

2005-06-13 Thread Ben Burton
> However we should keep jython in the archives, upstream shows some > activity for python2.3/2.4 compatibility. For reference, it seems upstream is currently looking at a final (non-beta) release around August [1]. Though they've missed deadlines before, so please don't take this as definitive.