Re: Bug#370833: New dh_python proposal

2006-06-11 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Sun, 11 Jun 2006, Dafydd Harries wrote: > Ar 10/06/2006 am 21:50, ysgrifennodd Raphael Hertzog: > > I have written dh_pycentral and dh_pysupport which will take care of the > > byte-compilation of the modules and integration with the respective tools. > > Those should be integrated in their resp

Re: Bug#370833: New dh_python proposal

2006-06-11 Thread Andreas Barth
* Raphael Hertzog ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [060611 10:00]: > What is slowing our progress is the refusal to let the time decide between > python-central and/or python-support. There's no consensus here and if you > need to make a choice, your only possibility is to request the technical > committee to m

Re: Bug#370833: New dh_python proposal

2006-06-11 Thread Andreas Barth
* Andreas Barth ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [060611 10:13]: > * Raphael Hertzog ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [060611 10:00]: > > What is slowing our progress is the refusal to let the time decide between > > python-central and/or python-support. There's no consensus here and if you > > need to make a choice, your o

Re: Bug#370833: New dh_python proposal

2006-06-11 Thread Jonas Meurer
On 10/06/2006 Joe Wreschnig wrote: > > Please reconsider. If you don't integrate that version now, we'll most > > probably do the switch to python2.4 in the next days and we'll replace > > dh_python calls by dh_python2 calls (integrated for example in the python > > package) or we'll remove call to

Deprecating /usr/lib/site-python in python policy

2006-06-11 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, as part of the new policy we should also deprecate /usr/lib/site-python. Since this directory is in sys.path of all python versions, if we byte-compile those in-place for the current version, then the modules won't work with other python versions. Most packages using this directory (like lin

Re: Deprecating /usr/lib/site-python in python policy

2006-06-11 Thread Dafydd Harries
Ar 11/06/2006 am 14:35, ysgrifennodd Raphael Hertzog: > Someone should file a wishlist bug on lintian to check that packages don't > use /usr/lib/site-python any more. Done: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=372748 -- Dafydd -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Status of recent and upcoming changes

2006-06-11 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi all, first of all Matthias will announce shortly the timeframe of the switch to Python2.4 by default. He will upload ASAP the new python-defaults to experimental and a few days later to unstable. Once that is done we have to switch all our modules to work with python2.4. In parallel to that,

Re: Status of recent and upcoming changes

2006-06-11 Thread Matthias Klose
Raphael Hertzog writes: > Hi all, > > first of all Matthias will announce shortly the timeframe of the switch to > Python2.4 by default. He will upload ASAP the new python-defaults to > experimental and a few days later to unstable. I'm attaching here a draft for an announcement to d-d-a, feedbac

Re: Status of recent and upcoming changes

2006-06-11 Thread Andreas Barth
* Matthias Klose ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [060611 17:49]: > MOVE to python 2.4 / Changing the packaging style for python packages > [...] > - The current pythonX.Y-foo packages having modules in the python "having only modules"? >library path are collapsed into one package python-foo. Binary >i

Re: Deprecating /usr/lib/site-python in python policy

2006-06-11 Thread Thomas Viehmann
tag 372748 +patch thanks Dafydd Harries wrote: > Ar 11/06/2006 am 14:35, ysgrifennodd Raphael Hertzog: >> Someone should file a wishlist bug on lintian to check that packages don't >> use /usr/lib/site-python any more. > Done: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=372748 Maybe the attac

Re: Deprecating /usr/lib/site-python in python policy

2006-06-11 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Sun, 11 Jun 2006, Thomas Viehmann wrote: > --- lintian-1.23.21/checks/files.desc 2006-05-04 05:37:21.0 +0200 > +++ lintian-1.23.21.tv0/checks/files.desc 2006-06-11 18:36:34.0 > +0200 > @@ -360,6 +360,12 @@ > Info: Debian packages should not install into /opt, because it >

Re: Status of recent and upcoming changes

2006-06-11 Thread Graham Wilson
On Sun, Jun 11, 2006 at 05:50:06PM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: > - Some infrastructure was implemented to remove all hardcoded >information about versions in the packaging scripts, so that >sourceless package rebuilds (binary NMUs) are enough to update >a package for new/removed/defau

Re: Status of recent and upcoming changes

2006-06-11 Thread Matthias Klose
Graham Wilson writes: > On Sun, Jun 11, 2006 at 05:50:06PM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: > > - Some infrastructure was implemented to remove all hardcoded > >information about versions in the packaging scripts, so that > >sourceless package rebuilds (binary NMUs) are enough to update > >

Re: Status of recent and upcoming changes

2006-06-11 Thread Joe Wreschnig
On Sun, 2006-06-11 at 15:02 -0500, Graham Wilson wrote: > On Sun, Jun 11, 2006 at 05:50:06PM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: > > - Some infrastructure was implemented to remove all hardcoded > >information about versions in the packaging scripts, so that > >sourceless package rebuilds (binary

another way to reproduce the bug or make use of /usr/share/i18n/SUPPORTED

2006-06-11 Thread Yaroslav Halchenko
N.B. I'm sorry if you got this email twice... I mixed up an email on my 1st trial... need sleep... please reply to this one instead so all relevant entities get "in the loop" I think that this old bug (185776) is related to fresh #372684 and #369689 (which I reassigned to python2.3) Following cod

Re: Deprecating /usr/lib/site-python in python policy

2006-06-11 Thread Alexandre Fayolle
On Sun, Jun 11, 2006 at 02:35:05PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > Hi, > > as part of the new policy we should also deprecate /usr/lib/site-python. I'll have to reread the new policy, but I think this is not a very good idea. /usr/lib/site-python exists for modules which do not care about which v