Re: How to help with sphinx 1.2?
Dmitry Shachnev writes: > Hi Nikolaus, > > On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 11:43 PM, Nikolaus Rath wrote: >> Hello, >> >> Is there a way for me to help getting Sphinx 1.2 into unstable? >> >> I looked at the open bugs, but didn't find anything that seemed to block >> an upload.. > > Except for the fact it has not been released yet. So that is the showstopper? I thought I've seen other Debian packages based on development releases, so I thought maybe b1 would have a chance of making it out of experimental... Best, Nikolaus -- Encrypted emails preferred. PGP fingerprint: 5B93 61F8 4EA2 E279 ABF6 02CF A9AD B7F8 AE4E 425C »Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a Banana.« -- 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/877gekfkuw@rath.org
Please install /usr/bin/python2
Please install /usr/bin/python2 as part of the default Debian install. It still doesn't exist on 7.1, which prevents scripts with a shebang of #!/usr/bin/python2 from running. Note that the following matters (which have derailed previous threads on this topic) are irrelevant to this request: - whether Debian scripts should switch to /usr/bin/python2 instead of /usr/bin/python - whether /usr/bin/python should currently be Python 3 - whether /usr/bin/python should ever be Python 3 - whether Python 2 will ever be deprecated - whether Arch switching /usr/bin/python to Python 3 was a bad idea - whether Arch is stupid Regardless of any of the above, adding /usr/bin/python2 is definitely a Good Thing and will Benefit Users, because there are an increasing number of scripts in the wild using #!/usr/bin/python2. It's also the Upstream Recommendation. - Kerrick
Re: Please install /usr/bin/python2
Kerrick Staley wrote: >Please install /usr/bin/python2 as part of the default Debian install. >It >still doesn't exist on 7.1, which prevents scripts with a shebang of >#!/usr/bin/python2 from running. > >Note that the following matters (which have derailed previous threads >on >this topic) are irrelevant to this request: >- whether Debian scripts should switch to /usr/bin/python2 instead of >/usr/bin/python >- whether /usr/bin/python should currently be Python 3 >- whether /usr/bin/python should ever be Python 3 >- whether Python 2 will ever be deprecated >- whether Arch switching /usr/bin/python to Python 3 was a bad idea >- whether Arch is stupid > >Regardless of any of the above, adding /usr/bin/python2 is definitely a >Good Thing and will Benefit Users, because there are an increasing >number >of scripts in the wild using #!/usr/bin/python2. It's also the Upstream >Recommendation. It's an accident it wasn't provided in wheezy, but I don't think it's the kind of bug that's suitable for a post-release fix. It's already in Testing, so there's not more to do now. There are many, many systems from many different distributions that don't have /usr/bin/python2. Script authors that want their work to be portable shouldn't assume it exists. That's true independent of if we fix the in Wheezy or not. Scott K -- 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/7fc2bc78-849e-4f2e-a898-e29431733...@email.android.com
