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

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 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 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: 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

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,