Re: multiple pythons and the default

2006-05-10 Thread Duck
Coin, Bruce Sass [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Isn't one of the objectives to reduce the number of Pythons in Debian, so at some point not all versions will be available... I don't think there is any reason to reduce user's liberty by forcing them to use one specific version. ...then there are

Re: Thoughts on apps supporting multiple versions of python

2006-05-10 Thread Duck
Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Wow, what a constructive response. You've surely been on this list for years and must know all the changes that need to be made to Debian's python policy. Why didn't you reply to Bruce's original question with your own superior write-up of this

Re: Thoughts on apps supporting multiple versions of python

2006-05-10 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mercredi 10 mai 2006 à 16:32 +0200, Marc Dequènes a écrit : I wonder how some situations (if existing) may be solved as long as we have unique non-versioned scripts-only packages and compiled modules cohabiting. When for eg python2.4-soya needs editobj, it just depends on python-editobj

Re: Thoughts on apps supporting multiple versions of python

2006-05-10 Thread Duck
Coin Joss, Josselin Mouette [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: As Steve suggested, this can be solved by introducing a new variable named ${python:Provides} in dh_python, which will read the .version as well. Then, python-editobj will have a Provides: python2.3-editobj, python2.4-editobj and

Re: on packaging TurboGears 0.8.9

2006-05-10 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
Bob, Pythoners, Em Qua, 2006-05-03 às 22:35 -0500, Bob Tanner escreveu: I plan to add turbogears and json-py to the python-modules team; Bob, what say you? Have you made any work on this front? Should I go on and upload those packages to Debian? I have most of those packages (some dated)