Re: Backporting dh_python2 stuff

2011-01-30 Thread Loïc Minier
I went for pysupport; I had other issues completing the backport, but the natty .deb seemed identical before and after the switch, and the build-deps seemed to be compatible with lucid. -- Loïc Minier -- ubuntu-backports mailing list ubuntu-backports@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or

Backporting dh_python2 stuff

2011-01-29 Thread Loïc Minier
Hey I'm trying to backport linaro-image-tools from natty to lucid in a PPA, and dh_python2 was only added in the python-defaults uploaded just after lucid, so l-i-t build-deps on python (= 2.6.5-1~). I'm not too keen on backporting python-defaults or python, so I wonder whether you

Re: Backporting dh_python2 stuff

2011-01-29 Thread John Dong
Hi Loïc, Indeed your intuition on not backporting python-defaults/python agrees with mine. In cases like this, my recommendation is to make minimal source changes necessary to linaro-image-tools to make it build against lucid. Such source changes stand a much higher chance of being accepted,

Re: Backporting dh_python2 stuff

2011-01-29 Thread Loïc Minier
On Sat, Jan 29, 2011, John Dong wrote: Indeed your intuition on not backporting python-defaults/python agrees with mine. In cases like this, my recommendation is to make minimal source changes necessary to linaro-image-tools to make it build against lucid. Such source changes stand a much