Re: Bug#133306: apt-listchanges: Does not handle .pyc files correctly

2002-02-22 Thread Donovan Baarda
On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 10:06:06PM +0100, Christian Kurz wrote: > On 22/02/02, Donovan Baarda wrote: > > First, remember that this tool is explicity for the subset of packages > > containing pure-python modules that work with multiple versions of Python. > > Well, but that's a good point for start

Re: Bug#133306: apt-listchanges: Does not handle .pyc files correctly

2002-02-21 Thread Donovan Baarda
On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 10:16:09AM +0100, Christian Kurz wrote: > On 18/02/02, Bastian Kleineidam wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 12:48:02PM -0500, Matt Zimmerman wrote: [...] > > Look at http://people.debian.org/~calvin/python-central/ OK, I promised I would have a look are python-central and

Re: Bug#133306: apt-listchanges: Does not handle .pyc files correctly

2002-02-19 Thread Christian Kurz
On 18/02/02, Bastian Kleineidam wrote: > On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 12:48:02PM -0500, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > Good plan; why not do that for python? How about a > > /usr/sbin/python-pkgtool --install > > /usr/sbin/python-pkgtool --remove > Look at http://people.debian.org/~calvin/python-central/

Re: Bug#133306: apt-listchanges: Does not handle .pyc files correctly

2002-02-18 Thread Donovan Baarda
On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 06:31:49PM -0500, Jim Penny wrote: > OK, I am clearly not going to persuade you how wrong-headed ;-) you are, > so proceed. > > Please use the debconf model. If there are enough clear benefits, both > packagers and administrators will want to use your system. [... snip

Re: Bug#133306: apt-listchanges: Does not handle .pyc files correctly

2002-02-18 Thread Jim Penny
OK, I am clearly not going to persuade you how wrong-headed ;-) you are, so proceed. Please use the debconf model. If there are enough clear benefits, both packagers and administrators will want to use your system. Here is something that would make this enormously more palatable to me. Event:

Re: Bug#133306: apt-listchanges: Does not handle .pyc files correctly

2002-02-18 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 01:35:25PM -0500, Jim Penny wrote: > Objection 1: Autocompilation can result in progams that compile but > do not work as expected. > Examples: scope rule changes. Inheritance Changes. Arithmetic Changes. This has nothing to do with the organization of the

Re: Bug#133306: apt-listchanges: Does not handle .pyc files correctly

2002-02-18 Thread Jim Penny
On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 12:48:02PM -0500, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 12:33:55PM +0100, Christian Kurz wrote: > > > On 17/02/02, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > > and this one package with one set of install/remove scripts supports > > > emacs20, emacs21, xemacs21. When a new emacs

Re: Bug#133306: apt-listchanges: Does not handle .pyc files correctly

2002-02-18 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 07:02:02PM +0100, Bastian Kleineidam wrote: > On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 12:48:02PM -0500, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > Good plan; why not do that for python? How about a > > > > /usr/sbin/python-pkgtool --install > > /usr/sbin/python-pkgtool --remove > > Look at http://peopl

Re: Bug#133306: apt-listchanges: Does not handle .pyc files correctly

2002-02-18 Thread Bastian Kleineidam
On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 12:48:02PM -0500, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > Good plan; why not do that for python? How about a > > /usr/sbin/python-pkgtool --install > /usr/sbin/python-pkgtool --remove Look at http://people.debian.org/~calvin/python-central/ Should we have a vote for the binary name? Cu

Re: Bug#133306: apt-listchanges: Does not handle .pyc files correctly

2002-02-18 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 12:33:55PM +0100, Christian Kurz wrote: > On 17/02/02, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > and this one package with one set of install/remove scripts supports > > emacs20, emacs21, xemacs21. When a new emacs is installed, the > > installed elisp packages are byte-compiled for it, a