Re: Newer Debian versions of python on older Debian distros?

2014-09-13 Thread Antoine Pitrou
Hi, Chris Angelico gmail.com> writes: > > On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 5:04 AM, Travis Griggs gmail.com> wrote: > > Does anyone have experience with using newer versions of python debian packages (in particular, python3 > and python3-bson-ext from ‘testing’) on older stable versions (‘wheezy’ in thi

Re: Newer Debian versions of python on older Debian distros?

2014-09-11 Thread Travis Griggs
On Sep 8, 2014, at 5:06 PM, Chris Angelico wrote: > Alternatively, you could just run Debian Jessie. I have a few Jessie > systems on the network, with a Python 3.4 IIRC, and there've been no > stability problems lately. Both options are pretty easy. In the end, we were able to get jessie runnin

Re: Newer Debian versions of python on older Debian distros?

2014-09-09 Thread Chris Angelico
On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 1:23 AM, Rustom Mody wrote: > I thought so too viz that the problems were teething troubles. > However the rants on debian-dev seem to be following from extensive breakage > from systemd. > > Also there is this thread in which systemd broke the standard > kernel debugging o

Re: Newer Debian versions of python on older Debian distros?

2014-09-09 Thread Rustom Mody
On Tuesday, September 9, 2014 2:53:53 PM UTC+5:30, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 6:09 PM, Rustom Mody wrote: > >> Does anyone have experience with using newer versions of python > >> debian packages (in particular, python3 and python3-bson-ext from > >> 'testing') on older stable

Re: Newer Debian versions of python on older Debian distros?

2014-09-09 Thread Chris Angelico
On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 6:09 PM, Rustom Mody wrote: >> Does anyone have experience with using newer versions of python >> debian packages (in particular, python3 and python3-bson-ext from >> 'testing') on older stable versions ('wheezy' in this case)? If >> someone's figured out how to do this eas

Re: Newer Debian versions of python on older Debian distros?

2014-09-09 Thread Rustom Mody
On Tuesday, September 9, 2014 12:35:27 AM UTC+5:30, Travis Griggs wrote: > (I realize that this may be seen as off topic for as a general > python question, but given my historical experience with the Debian > community's predilection to answer all questions with a grumpy "go > read the very very v

Re: Newer Debian versions of python on older Debian distros?

2014-09-08 Thread Chris Angelico
On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 5:04 AM, Travis Griggs wrote: > Does anyone have experience with using newer versions of python debian > packages (in particular, python3 and python3-bson-ext from ‘testing’) on > older stable versions (‘wheezy’ in this case)? If someone’s figured out how > to do this eas

Newer Debian versions of python on older Debian distros?

2014-09-08 Thread Travis Griggs
(I realize that this may be seen as off topic for as a general python question, but given my historical experience with the Debian community’s predilection to answer all questions with a grumpy “go read the very very very very large and ever shifting fine manual”, I’m hoping for better luck here