Thanks to all your suggestions and feedback, the task-python* metapackages are [finally!] ready, and will be uploaded today by Tony Mancill.
The impatient can pull them directly from me: deb http://www.someotherplace.org/david_coe/debian/released ./ deb-src http://www.someotherplace.org/david_coe/debian/released ./ We settled upon the following names: Install: if you want to: ------- --------------- task-python write scripts and uncomplicated Python applications task-python-web write CGI scripts and web applications in Python task-python-bundle have the entire upstream (www.python.org) distribution task-python-dev write complex Python applications, have available most of the Debian-packaged Python extensions, and/or write Python extensions in other programming languages Thanks again.
