Donovan Baarda writes: > On Fri, Aug 23, 2002 at 06:35:02PM +0200, Martin Sj?gren wrote: > > fre 2002-08-23 klockan 18.28 skrev Jim Penny: > > > What packages do you have in mind? Some of the c-extension maintainers, > > > myself included, have an informal policy of "support everything in the > > > distribution", but do not have any obejection to supporting less! > > > > The package I'm maintaining and developing myself, pyOpenSSL. > > > > > Or, are you saying that you have non-debian applications that depend on > > > 1.5? > > > > In a way, yes, since RedHat are using pyOpenSSL, and I at least think it > > was with Python 1.5. > > > > In any case, putting on my upstream-developer-hat, I want to support > > Python 1.5, and it would be nice to still have Python 1.5 in Debian, so > > I can continue using that as my devel OS. > > I too can't see any particular reson to remove it, except as a way of > forcing everyone to stop using it. > > It shouldn't really need any supporting... upgrading the default python to > 2.2 should not require any changes to the existing python1.5 packges. The > only reason they should ever need changing is serious bugs and policy > changes. One such change might be adding python-central support to the > postinst and postrm scripts.
hmm, we don't really need antiques like this in the current distribution. Get the packages from woody and install them. Each more version is a burden for i.e. security updates.
