[ Note: I'm also co-maintainer and sponsor of initial packager of python-django ]
On Thu, 28 Aug 2008, Steve Langasek wrote: > - Django 0.96.2 is already too far out of date for most applications (i.e., > it's been "too old" for the past 6 months), and has been in > security-updates-only mode for over a year; if it comes down to releasing > with 0.96.2 or not including django in the release, it appears to be > better to release without django. Indeed, I wanted to provide some numbers based on popcon data but unfortunately it doesn't differentiate by versions. http://people.debian.org/~igloo/popcon-graphs/index.php?packages=python-django However as a developer of some websites based on Django I can tell that I used the SVN snapshots that were in experimental and that any sane developer that reuses a minimum of Django modules available on the web would have done the same as most of them have requirements on features added after 0.96. As a proof, some django external extensions have been packaged (by me) but are only available in experimental: http://packages.qa.debian.org/p/python-django-registration.html http://packages.qa.debian.org/p/python-django-tagging.html And more are coming in experimental (not by me this time) as you can see in the NEW queue: http://ftp-master.debian.org/new.html (python-django-djblets / python-django-evolution) We're not asking any exception for those extensions, it would be good enough to have the 1.0 version of the framework itself in lenny. > > 2. A freeze exception would be low-impact. Currently there is no > > application that depends on Django in unstable or testing. There are two > > applications that Suggest Django because Django can use it but they > > don't use the framework itself and are therefore compatible with the new > > version. > > More than this, the python-django package has no reverse-dependencies or > reverse-build-deps in the archive. So yes, the impact is low. Only if you exclude experimental from your definiton of "archive". But as far as sid/lenny are considered, you're right. Full ack on the rest of your post. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog Le best-seller français mis à jour pour Debian Etch : http://www.ouaza.com/livre/admin-debian/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]