On Sat, 2011-06-11 at 20:11 -0400, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: > On Fri, 10 Jun 2011, Barry Warsaw wrote: > > >Do what you (plural) want, I don't care. > > Personally, I want one helper. The consistency will make life much easier > > for > > new packagers, for documentation, and for helping focus the community on > > fixing bugs, adding features, and improving the state of the art. > > YEAP -- one mighty helper would be better than many less mighty. Even: > one mighty helper would be better than 2 mighty, because we hate > duplication and trying to reduce our maintenance effort. But ATM, > is there any source/documentation which could give me a clear answer why > pysupport sucks and dh_python2 rules (or why should I care about > python_support -> dh_python2)?
Barry has addressed this in a later mail (on a subthread). Can you respond, just so that the idea gets another +1. > I am asking because I have a few packages which use pysupport now and it > seems to work (so it is the mighty for me)... not sure if I am > ready to invest time into doing a conversion which has some plausible > benefits which I could not sense right away. You don't have to do the conversion yourself. You need just accept patches to do so. -- 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/1307870751.14381.4.camel@debian
