Re: Please install /usr/bin/python2

2013-09-18 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Monday, September 16, 2013 23:23:30 Kerrick Staley wrote: > On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 11:34 AM, Scott Kitterman wrote: > > OK. I think that convinces me it's widely enough spread we ought to fix > > this for Wheezy. I'll take it up with the release managers as it's their > > decision, not mine.

Re: PEP 453 affects Debian packaging of Python packages

2013-09-18 Thread Nikolaus Rath
Paul Tagliamonte writes: > On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 03:22:19PM +0200, Piotr Ożarowski wrote: >> [W. Martin Borgert, 2013-09-18] >> > As a passionate pip hater I would go for a Conflicts, >> > which finally would make pip uninstallable :~) >> > Next steps: get rid of gem, npm, EPT, ... >> >> +1 (un

Re: PEP 453 affects Debian packaging of Python packages

2013-09-18 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Sep 18, 2013, at 09:36 AM, Paul Tagliamonte wrote: > 1) pip isn't for global package management, for this is stupid. If we > disabled root use of pip, I think we'd all be a bit happier. > > 4) Python modules from dpkg are borderline useless for developers. We > package modules so that

Re: PEP 453 affects Debian packaging of Python packages

2013-09-18 Thread Stuart Prescott
Hi Paul, > I don't understand the pip hate. Why don't you guys try and, you know, > figure out *why* these tools were invented. It (for sure) is overly > simplistic, but it's there for a reason. It's pretty obvious why these tools were invented -- I think everyone appreciates the difficulties of

Re: PEP 453 affects Debian packaging of Python packages

2013-09-18 Thread Matthias Klose
Am 19.09.2013 00:36, schrieb Scott Kitterman: > > > Paul Tagliamonte wrote: >> On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 05:41:52PM +0200, Piotr Ożarowski wrote: >>> ok, I forgot to add ";)", but... >> >> Sure, but let's be more careful - I don't want people quoting "Debian >> Python" people telling people they'r

Re: PEP 453 affects Debian packaging of Python packages

2013-09-18 Thread Scott Kitterman
Paul Tagliamonte wrote: >On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 10:57:30PM +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: >> On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 3:36 PM, Paul Tagliamonte > wrote: >> > 4) Python modules from dpkg are borderline useless for >developers. We >> > package modules so that apps can use them, not so t

Re: PEP 453 affects Debian packaging of Python packages

2013-09-18 Thread Scott Kitterman
Paul Tagliamonte wrote: >On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 05:41:52PM +0200, Piotr Ożarowski wrote: >> ok, I forgot to add ";)", but... > >Sure, but let's be more careful - I don't want people quoting "Debian >Python" people telling people they're going to purge pip from the >archive... > >It's all too of

Re: PEP 453 affects Debian packaging of Python packages

2013-09-18 Thread Piotr Ożarowski
[Thomas Kluyver, 2013-09-18] > From a developer point of view: this leaves you dependent on other people > to get the latest release of your software to users, which can be very > frustrating. For instance, I'm a developer for IPython: we made a 1.0 > release over a month ago, and there's already b

Re: PEP 453 affects Debian packaging of Python packages

2013-09-18 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 10:57:30PM +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 3:36 PM, Paul Tagliamonte wrote: > > 4) Python modules from dpkg are borderline useless for developers. We > > package modules so that apps can use them, not so that people can > > develop w

Re: PEP 453 affects Debian packaging of Python packages

2013-09-18 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 05:41:52PM +0200, Piotr Ożarowski wrote: > ok, I forgot to add ";)", but... Sure, but let's be more careful - I don't want people quoting "Debian Python" people telling people they're going to purge pip from the archive... It's all too often I hear people complain about De

Re: PEP 453 affects Debian packaging of Python packages

2013-09-18 Thread Zygmunt Krynicki
W dniu śro, wrz 18, 2013 o 10:57 ,nadawca Tshepang Lekhonkhobe napisał: On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 3:36 PM, Paul Tagliamonte wrote: 4) Python modules from dpkg are borderline useless for developers. We package modules so that apps can use them, not so that people can develop w

Re: PEP 453 affects Debian packaging of Python packages

2013-09-18 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 3:36 PM, Paul Tagliamonte wrote: > 4) Python modules from dpkg are borderline useless for developers. We > package modules so that apps can use them, not so that people can > develop with them. Are they 'borderline useless' because they are normally much older

Re: [PATCH] Support :any architecture qualifiers for multiarch

2013-09-18 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 06:24:13PM +0200, Jakub Wilk wrote: > Following the “if it didn't happen on a mailing list, it didn't > happen”, I repeat here what I said on IRC: > 12:26 < kwilk> So I rebuilt src:python-aalib, and I ended up these Depends: > "python3:any (>= 3.3.2-2~), libaa1". > 12:27 <

Re: PEP 453 affects Debian packaging of Python packages

2013-09-18 Thread Scott Kitterman
Paul Wise wrote: >On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 4:33 PM, Scott Kitterman wrote: > >> P.S. I'm not nominating myself to be the diplomat that talks to >upstream for what are probably obvious reasons. > >Too late, upstream folks (for eg Barry Warsaw) are on this list, are >DDs and are part of the Debian

Re: PEP 453 affects Debian packaging of Python packages

2013-09-18 Thread Thomas Kluyver
On 18 September 2013 08:41, Piotr Ożarowski wrote: > so instead of reinventing the wheel and trying to make something that > works everywhere they should make it easier for others to convert > whatever they provide (tarballs?) into .rpm, .deb or .exe. > >From a developer point of view: this leav

Re: PEP 453 affects Debian packaging of Python packages

2013-09-18 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 4:33 PM, Scott Kitterman wrote: > P.S. I'm not nominating myself to be the diplomat that talks to upstream for > what are probably obvious reasons. Too late, upstream folks (for eg Barry Warsaw) are on this list, are DDs and are part of the Debian Python community so you

Re: [PATCH] Support :any architecture qualifiers for multiarch

2013-09-18 Thread Jakub Wilk
Following the “if it didn't happen on a mailing list, it didn't happen”, I repeat here what I said on IRC: 12:26 < kwilk> So I rebuilt src:python-aalib, and I ended up these Depends: "python3:any (>= 3.3.2-2~), libaa1". 12:27 < kwilk> This is wrong; the package only works if the interpreter ar

Re: PEP 453 affects Debian packaging of Python packages

2013-09-18 Thread Piotr Ożarowski
[Paul Tagliamonte, 2013-09-18] > On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 03:22:19PM +0200, Piotr Ożarowski wrote: > > [W. Martin Borgert, 2013-09-18] > > > As a passionate pip hater I would go for a Conflicts, > > > which finally would make pip uninstallable :~) > > > Next steps: get rid of gem, npm, EPT, ... > >

Re: PEP 453 affects Debian packaging of Python packages

2013-09-18 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 10:33:52AM -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote: > I object to the mandatory nature of the proposal and the associated be sure > to document for your users why you were idiots and didn't ship this. End > users should not need these kinds of tools. I agree. > I think that intro

Re: PEP 453 affects Debian packaging of Python packages

2013-09-18 Thread Scott Kitterman
Paul Tagliamonte wrote: >On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 03:22:19PM +0200, Piotr Ożarowski wrote: >> [W. Martin Borgert, 2013-09-18] >> > As a passionate pip hater I would go for a Conflicts, >> > which finally would make pip uninstallable :~) >> > Next steps: get rid of gem, npm, EPT, ... >> >> +1 (un

Re: PEP 453 affects Debian packaging of Python packages

2013-09-18 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 03:22:19PM +0200, Piotr Ożarowski wrote: > [W. Martin Borgert, 2013-09-18] > > As a passionate pip hater I would go for a Conflicts, > > which finally would make pip uninstallable :~) > > Next steps: get rid of gem, npm, EPT, ... > > +1 (unless all these "wheel re-inventors

Re: PEP 453 affects Debian packaging of Python packages

2013-09-18 Thread Piotr Ożarowski
[W. Martin Borgert, 2013-09-18] > As a passionate pip hater I would go for a Conflicts, > which finally would make pip uninstallable :~) > Next steps: get rid of gem, npm, EPT, ... +1 (unless all these "wheel re-inventors" will speed up a bit - they're still where Linux packagers were 5-10 years a

Re: PEP 453 affects Debian packaging of Python packages

2013-09-18 Thread W. Martin Borgert
Quoting "Matthias Klose" : Also the platform package manager should be the preferred way to install packages, not pip, so even a Recommends is a bit strange. Yes, a "not-recommended" field would make sense here. As a passionate pip hater I would go for a Conflicts, which finally would make pip

Re: PEP 453 affects Debian packaging of Python packages

2013-09-18 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Wednesday, September 18, 2013 17:16:22 Ben Finney wrote: > Howdy all, > > Over at the ‘python-dev’ forum, PEP 453 is being discussed. This affects > Debian packaging of Python, and packages written for Python. > > See the discussion thread and take the opportunity to represent Debian > https:/

Re: PEP 453 affects Debian packaging of Python packages

2013-09-18 Thread Matthias Klose
Am 18.09.2013 09:48, schrieb Julien Cristau: > On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 09:38:57 +0200, Paul Wise wrote: > >> We don't do "private copies" or "bundled copies" in Debian, so I guess >> the right way to go for Debian is to have python depend on python-pip >> and python3 depend on python3-pip? >> > We

Re: PEP 453 affects Debian packaging of Python packages

2013-09-18 Thread Julien Cristau
On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 09:38:57 +0200, Paul Wise wrote: > We don't do "private copies" or "bundled copies" in Debian, so I guess > the right way to go for Debian is to have python depend on python-pip > and python3 depend on python3-pip? > We don't do dependency loops without a good reason eithe

Re: PEP 453 affects Debian packaging of Python packages

2013-09-18 Thread Paul Wise
We don't do "private copies" or "bundled copies" in Debian, so I guess the right way to go for Debian is to have python depend on python-pip and python3 depend on python3-pip? http://wiki.debian.org/EmbeddedCodeCopies -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to d

PEP 453 affects Debian packaging of Python packages

2013-09-18 Thread Ben Finney
Howdy all, Over at the ‘python-dev’ forum, PEP 453 is being discussed. This affects Debian packaging of Python, and packages written for Python. See the discussion thread and take the opportunity to represent Debian https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2013-September/128723.html> while th