Re: Switching to git

2011-03-07 Thread Didier Raboud
Vincent Bernat wrote: > Hi! > > There was some discussions about switching from SVN to git. I don't > remember everything but a major blocker was that it is not possible to > checkout a subtree with git and managing a lot of git repositories will > make it difficult to do global changes t

Re: shebang lines for Python scripts

2011-03-07 Thread Éric Araujo
> It's also unnecessary for distros because we should know exactly which version > of Python our scripts work with. And finally, setuptools will rewrite the > shebang line when it installs scripts (FSVO 'setuptools' ;). FTR, that’s actually done by the distutils build_scripts command. Relevant ex

Re: Switching to git

2011-03-07 Thread Nicolas Chauvat
On Sun, Mar 06, 2011 at 05:30:15PM -0500, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: > > Wouldn't managing python packages with mercurial make sense? > > it would as much as with any other DVCS, such as GIT. I am yet to hear > any objective advantage for using Python-based DVCS because they are > written in Pytho

Re: Switching to git

2011-03-07 Thread Toni Mueller
Hi Steve, On Sun, 06.03.2011 at 14:18:40 -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > AIUI Scott is talking here about the ease of transitioning an svn user to > bzr because of the similarity of the command model, not about using either > git or bzr to access the current svn repo. I was talking about the rob

Re: Switching to git

2011-03-07 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Mar 07, 2011, at 08:18 AM, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: >On 03/06/2011 07:33 PM, Barry Warsaw wrote: >> On Mar 06, 2011, at 05:43 PM, Sandro Tosi wrote: >> >>> Do the 2 VCDs you mentioned have clear advantage that make then >>> preferible to git except being Python-based? If so, I think it's a >>> qui

Bug#617272: transition: python3-defaults

2011-03-07 Thread Scott Kitterman
Package: release.debian.org Severity: normal User: release.debian@packages.debian.org Usertags: transition It looks like we are ready to switch the default python3 in Unstable from 3.1 to 3.2. It should affect a relatively small number of packages. Source uploads needed: distribute pyt

GPL applications using Python (OpenSSL issue?)

2011-03-07 Thread Ulrik Sverdrup
Can GPLv3+ applications written in Python exist in Debian main? The applications in question do not use an openssl exception. Python uses OpenSSL so the moment the application starts, it is linking against it too: $ objdump -p /usr/bin/python2.6 | grep NEEDED NEEDED libpthread.so.

Re: managing toplevel __init__.py files

2011-03-07 Thread Tim Michelsen
Hi, thanks for the links. My results are even more humple: https://launchpad.net/~pythonxy https://launchpad.net/~pythonxy/+archive/individual-devel https://launchpad.net/~pythonxy/+archive/individual-releases https://launchpad.net/~pythonxy/+archive/metapackages Many things could be optimised.

Re: GPL applications using Python (OpenSSL issue?)

2011-03-07 Thread roucaries bastien
On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 7:48 PM, Ulrik Sverdrup wrote: > Can GPLv3+ applications written in Python exist in Debian main? The > applications in question do not use an openssl exception. > > Python uses OpenSSL so the moment the application starts, it is linking > against it too: > > $ objdump -p /us