Hi Barry, thanks for your interest for Debian too :) On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 23:50, Barry Warsaw <ba...@python.org> wrote: > On May 18, 2010, at 02:30 PM, Scott Kitterman wrote: >>We did make the assumption that by the time 2.7 is released Debian will be in >>freeze.
Even if it won't be in freeze yet, it will soon to be, so it doesn't change that much > Yep. I heard rumors of a June-ish freeze, but I guess nothing official has > yet been decided. Nothing written in stone, but near june yes. Funny that it's the python2.6 transition what's currently delaying the freeze.. I don't think we can include 2.7 in Debian supported versions for squeeze, maybe just as a "playground" for squeeze+1. >>Another important point that I think deserves more emphasis is that we agreed >>that the testing done in Ubuntu for 2.7, will also be done against the Debian >>archive as well. There was a strong consensus in the group that Ubuntu should >>take great care to avoid doing anything that would accrue a technical debt >>that has to be paid in Debian (I found this a notable change from similar >>discussions in previous release cycles). > > I completely agree. I've added some emphasis to the previously mentioned wiki > page. Ideally transitions should start in Debian and lend "for free" in ubuntu, but I understand that for 10.10 we can't make Debian the environment for 2.7 transition :) Cheers, -- Sandro Tosi (aka morph, morpheus, matrixhasu) My website: http://matrixhasu.altervista.org/ Me at Debian: http://wiki.debian.org/SandroTosi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-python-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aanlktimvfglgzbuvdyuhvowuvfqnnnwkn0fzykxfb...@mail.gmail.com
