Re: Python 3.5 transition - Update

2015-08-21 Thread Barry Warsaw
Previously, I've described our plans for Python 3.5 in Wily and X, and I'd like to give a quick status/update about where we are, now that we're in feature freeze. PEP 478 documents Python 3.5's release schedule upstream. We currently have 3.5 rc 1 in Wily, with two more candidates scheduled

Getting ready for Python 3.5

2015-06-23 Thread Barry Warsaw
[Apologies for the cross-posting! -BAW] For Ubuntu 15.10 (Wily Werewolf), we want to make Python 3.5 the default Python 3 version. It's currently undecided whether we will keep Python 3.4 as a supported version, but a lot of that depends on how easily an archive port to Python 3.5 goes.

Re: Ubuntu Platform developers BOF session?

2013-11-08 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Nov 08, 2013, at 01:33 PM, Andrew Starr-Bochicchio wrote: H. bzr-builddeb works fine for me. The problem is with the UDD *branches*, which are an unmitigated disaster. Well, not a complete disaster, unless you care about one of the currently 920 packages failing import. ;)

Re: Ubuntu Platform developers BOF session?

2013-11-08 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Nov 08, 2013, at 08:34 PM, Robie Basak wrote: I more or less gave up using UDD. The problem is that I can't invest exclusively in that workflow. I try, and then sometimes I have a problem because of a package import failure. I don't think I touch that many packages, yet I've hit the issue

Re: Bug in fretsonfire/pil package

2013-05-30 Thread Barry Warsaw
On May 30, 2013, at 08:35 PM, Deve wrote: There is line: import PngImagePlugin Now it should be from PIL import PngImagePlugin Game not runs because of that. Please change it in package. Maybe there is some other similar problems. I didn't test it yet. Upstream fretsonfire should

Re: python-empy for raring/Python3

2013-02-06 Thread Barry Warsaw
Hi Dirk! First, thanks very much for your work on porting empy to Python 3, and your interest in making this available in Ubuntu. On Feb 06, 2013, at 11:06 AM, Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote: Is this package part of ubuntu already? What is the name of the source package? % apt-cache search empy

Re: [uds-announce] Development workshops at UDS

2012-10-27 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Oct 26, 2012, at 09:09 AM, James Hunt wrote: We also now have a session on Upstart Development: Similarly, we will be holding a Python 3 Porting Workshop at UDS: http://summit.ubuntu.com/uds-r/meeting/21399/python-3-porting-workshop/ I don't have specific plans yet, but I will be prepared

Re: Future of ubuntu-motu-mentors@lists.ubuntu.com

2011-11-07 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Nov 07, 2011, at 03:05 PM, Daniel Holbach wrote: For the procedure, I don't know if it's actually possible to redirect a mailing list to another. It can be done, but it will take someone with shell access to the mail server to set it up correctly. I'm happy to help work with the admins on

Re: Ubuntu development release and Finding something to work on.

2011-10-27 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Oct 27, 2011, at 11:55 AM, Andrew Starr-Bochicchio wrote: I don't believe you can upgrade to a development release using the-d switch to upgrade-manager until after Alpha 1 has been released. Of course, you could always change the entries in /etc/apt/sources.list manually to point to precise.

Re: About strange ftbfs of python-coverage on the buildds

2010-10-20 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Oct 20, 2010, at 05:40 PM, Luca Falavigna wrote: I'm seeing the exact same failures in my cheetah build after installing pkgbinarymangler in my chroots.  I will investigate. This is because python-support doesn't support python2.7 yet. I have a patch for that, which I've been running in