unblock 682906 by 683053 tags 682906 + moreinfo quit Piotr Ozarowski wrote: > [Jonathan Nieder, 2012-12-09]
>> * pyversions, dh_python2, pycompile: allow to override system's list of >> supported Python versions via DEBPYTHON_SUPPORTED and default Python >> version via DEBPYTHON_DEFAULT env. variables >> >> Do any packages in wheezy use these envvars? What will happen if they >> are rebuilt against python-defaults from wheezy? > > packages are not using it yet. Once they do, they should use it for > tests only. Wheezy administrators will be able to easily re-add support > for Python 2.4 thanks to these envvars (rebuilding one package to add > 2.4 symlinks should be much easier and safer with envvar than with > changing list of supported versions system-wide) [... and lots of other helpful information ...] Thanks for clarifying. If someone is interested in getting some appropriate subset of these changes well tested for wheezy, I suspect the next step is to prepare an upload for tpu that does not bump the python2.7 requirement. Marking so. Hope that helps, Jonathan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-release-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130101004908.GA11450@elie.Belkin
