On Sun, 2001-10-28 at 22:34, Joel Rosdahl wrote: > Hi, > > I have now finished Debianizing eGenix mx BASE (based on patch done by > Federico Di Gregorio, see bug#111156): > > http://www.lemburg.com/files/python/eGenix-mx-Extensions.html > > The upstream maintainer of "the mx packages" (mxdatetime, mxstack, > mxtools, ...) now distributes everything in one source package, so I > have used egenix-mx-base as source package name. It currently builds > the following binary packages compiled for Python 2.1: > > python-egenix-mxbeebase > python-egenix-mxdatetime (new version of python-mxdatetime) > python-egenix-mxproxy > python-egenix-mxqueue > python-egenix-mxstack (new version of python-mxstack) > python-egenix-mxtexttools (new version of python-mxtexttools) > python-egenix-mxtools (new version of python-mxtools) > > and also > > python-egenix-mx-base-dev
note that the location of the header files was wrong in my patch (/usr/include/pythonx.y/mx is much better, imho.) > > which includes headers for the C API to the libraries. > > Questions: > > 1. Does anyone need Python 1.5 versions of these packages? > > Packages I have found that are associated with some of the mx > packages are: > > python-mysqldb (Suggests: python-mxdatetime) > python-popy (Depends: python-mxdatetime) > python-psycopg (Depends: python-mxdatetime) i plan to drop support for 1.5 from psycopg (at least in debian builds) when we'll have a zope for python 2.1 in the archive. > python-reportlab (Suggests: python-mxtexttools) > > but I currently assume that no one of those will need Python 1.5. > Is my assumption incorrect? > > 2. Should I build Python 2.2 versions of these packages (i.e. will > woody include Python 2.2(beta))? > > 3. As the policy mandates, I have made the packages depend on > > python (>= 2.1), python (<< 2.2) > > Lintian doesn't really like that. :-) For example: > > E: python-egenix-mxdatetime: package-has-a-duplicate-relation python > N: > N: The package seems to declare a relation on another package more > than > N: once. This is not only sloppy but can break some tools > N: > > Okay, this wasn't a question, just a note. > > 4. Any other comments? > > Oh, and if anyone wants to look at or test the packages, get them > here: > > deb http://joel.rosdahl.net/debian/ ./ > deb-src http://joel.rosdahl.net/debian/ ./ thank you very much! -- Federico Di Gregorio Debian GNU/Linux Developer & Italian Press Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] INIT.D Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Best friends are often failed lovers. -- Me
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