On Tue, 08 Sep 2009 15:52:57 +0200 Josselin Mouette <j...@debian.org> wrote: >Le mardi 08 septembre 2009 à 09:35 -0400, Scott Kitterman a écrit : >> Does pyversions offer any real advantages over XS-...? All things being >> equal, if both helpers support a common method for this I think we should >> just use it. > >The advantages are cosmetic. And as already explained, this is an >irrelevant debate. We should now ought to extract that information from >build-dependencies instead of adding declarative fields that keep out of >sync. > >This is currently impossible since it would require modifying >the /usr/bin/pyversions script, which packaging scripts use to look for >the list of python versions to build for. > I think the build depends versus separate control field or pyversions discussion ought to be dealt with via some policy mechanism (discussed separately).
Since it's just cosmetic, I the we ought to use XS-... across the board as a team best practice for people to use regardless of the helper in use. It's a very small step for commonality, but it's probably all we can do right now. Scott K -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-python-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
