Kim Oldfield writes:
> On 10 Dec 2001, Matthias Klose typed:
> ] Anthony Towns writes:
> ] > Dropping python1.5 doesn't seem a particularly clever thing to do.
> ] If we don't have any python1.5 dependencies, why not?
>
> Because users will have no way of having both 1.5 and 2.1 on the same
> machine as the woody python2.1 package conflicts with the potato
> python-base (1.5) package.
good point.
> If one could upgrade from potato to woody, keeping the potato 1.5
> package, and installing the woody 2.1 packages then there would be no
> need to keep 1.5 in woody.
>
> There are plenty of users who will need to test scripts on their debian
> system which will run other systems which can't be upgraded (for many
> different reasons) to python 2.1.
>
> Suggestion: keep the python1.5 packages in woody, and remove them from
> sid once woody is released as the new stable.
sounds ok.
Matthias
