Re: Move to python 2.4 / Changing the packaging style for python packages

2006-06-15 Thread Matthias Klose
Mike Hommey writes: > On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 10:09:15AM +0200, Matthias Klose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > Mike Hommey writes: > > > Anyways, there would be a problem with python native extensions linked > > > against libpython. They would get the shlib dependencies on python2.x > > > package

Re: Move to python 2.4 / Changing the packaging style for python packages

2006-06-14 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Wed, 14 Jun 2006, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > Le Mar 13 Juin 2006 07:12, Anthony Towns a écrit : > > Apps can do either: > > > >     Package: foo > >     Depends: python (>= 2.4), python-bar > > > >     /usr/bin/foo: #!/usr/bin/env python > > doesn't it breaks if python-bar only provides 2.3 modul

Re: Move to python 2.4 / Changing the packaging style for python packages

2006-06-14 Thread Pierre Habouzit
Le Mer 14 Juin 2006 15:23, Pierre Habouzit a écrit : > Le Mar 13 Juin 2006 07:12, Anthony Towns a écrit : > > Apps can do either: > > > >     Package: foo > >     Depends: python (>= 2.4), python-bar > > > >     /usr/bin/foo: #!/usr/bin/env python > > doesn't it breaks if python-bar only provides 2

Re: Move to python 2.4 / Changing the packaging style for python packages

2006-06-14 Thread Pierre Habouzit
Le Mar 13 Juin 2006 07:12, Anthony Towns a écrit : > Apps can do either: > >     Package: foo >     Depends: python (>= 2.4), python-bar > >     /usr/bin/foo: #!/usr/bin/env python doesn't it breaks if python-bar only provides 2.3 modules ? because in an apt PoV the dependencies will be fullfiled

Re: Move to python 2.4 / Changing the packaging style for python packages

2006-06-13 Thread Matthias Klose
Mike Hommey writes: > On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 10:09:15AM +0200, Matthias Klose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > Mike Hommey writes: > > > Anyways, there would be a problem with python native extensions linked > > > against libpython. They would get the shlib dependencies on python2.x > > > package

Re: Move to python 2.4 / Changing the packaging style for python packages

2006-06-13 Thread Mike Hommey
On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 10:09:15AM +0200, Matthias Klose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mike Hommey writes: > > Anyways, there would be a problem with python native extensions linked > > against libpython. They would get the shlib dependencies on python2.x > > packages. > > So at least we can find

Re: Move to python 2.4 / Changing the packaging style for python packages

2006-06-13 Thread Matthias Klose
Mike Hommey writes: > Anyways, there would be a problem with python native extensions linked > against libpython. They would get the shlib dependencies on python2.x > packages. So at least we can find these and fix them. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscri

Re: Move to python 2.4 / Changing the packaging style for python packages

2006-06-13 Thread Matthias Klose
martin f krafft writes: > also sprach Matthias Klose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.06.13.0149 +0200]: > > - The current pythonX.Y-foo packages having modules in the python > >library path are collapsed into one package python-foo. Binary > >independent modules are made available for the python

Re: Move to python 2.4 / Changing the packaging style for python packages

2006-06-13 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.06.13.0945 +0200]: > So wouldn't this be a way to get rid of the problem? Why bother > pre-compiling them? ... doh! because the first is hopefully not by root, and a /var cache would be subject to cache poisoning if writeable by other users. m

Re: Move to python 2.4 / Changing the packaging style for python packages

2006-06-13 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.06.13.0932 +0200]: > > Couldn't Python be extended to store .pyc files in /var? > > Python doesn't need to be changed. If you use python-support that's > precisely what will happen for public modules (but they are still created > in the postint

Re: Move to python 2.4 / Changing the packaging style for python packages

2006-06-13 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Tue, 13 Jun 2006, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Matthias Klose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.06.13.0149 +0200]: > > - The current pythonX.Y-foo packages having modules in the python > >library path are collapsed into one package python-foo. Binary > >independent modules are made avai

Re: Move to python 2.4 / Changing the packaging style for python packages

2006-06-13 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Matthias Klose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.06.13.0149 +0200]: > - The current pythonX.Y-foo packages having modules in the python >library path are collapsed into one package python-foo. Binary >independent modules are made available for the python versions >currently support

Re: Move to python 2.4 / Changing the packaging style for python packages

2006-06-12 Thread Mike Hommey
On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 08:17:17AM +0200, Mike Hommey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 01:49:26AM +0200, Matthias Klose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > - The current pythonX.Y-foo packages having modules in the python > >library path are collapsed into one package python-

Re: Move to python 2.4 / Changing the packaging style for python packages

2006-06-12 Thread Mike Hommey
On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 01:49:26AM +0200, Matthias Klose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > - The current pythonX.Y-foo packages having modules in the python >library path are collapsed into one package python-foo. Binary >independent modules are made available for the python versions >curr

Re: Move to python 2.4 / Changing the packaging style for python packages

2006-06-12 Thread Anthony Towns
On Mon, Jun 12, 2006 at 09:59:58PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > AFAIR, a package > > should not have to depend on python2.3 and python2.4; instead, applications > > that need a specific version of the interpreter should depend on it > > themselv

Re: Move to python 2.4 / Changing the packaging style for python packages

2006-06-12 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Jun 12, 2006 at 09:59:58PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > AFAIR, a package > > should not have to depend on python2.3 and python2.4; instead, applications > > that need a specific version of the interpreter should depend on it > > themsel

Re: Move to python 2.4 / Changing the packaging style for python packages

2006-06-12 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > AFAIR, a package > should not have to depend on python2.3 and python2.4; instead, applications > that need a specific version of the interpreter should depend on it > themselves. I hope that it will be possible for such apps to do it without specifying

Re: Move to python 2.4 / Changing the packaging style for python packages

2006-06-12 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 07:39:29AM +0400, Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote: > >Binary dependent > >extensions are put for all supported python versions into the > >same python-foo package. > So these packages are going to depend on all supported python versions, > making impossible to remo

Re: Move to python 2.4 / Changing the packaging style for python packages

2006-06-12 Thread Ben Burton
Hi, > > 1. It won't build under python2.4. I have fixes for this that I haven't > >uploaded (and that need some more testing and tidying up). > > You may still ask for help. This will be easy enough to have ready by the time 2.3 is removed, which I'm assuming is not happening tomorrow. Wh

Re: Move to python 2.4 / Changing the packaging style for python packages

2006-06-12 Thread Nikita V. Youshchenko
>Binary dependent >extensions are put for all supported python versions into the >same python-foo package. So these packages are going to depend on all supported python versions, making impossible to remove old python versions from user's systems? pgp8TX0wkQDNo.pgp Description: PGP

Re: Move to python 2.4 / Changing the packaging style for python packages

2006-06-12 Thread Duck
Coin, Ben Burton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > For reference, decompyle still needs python2.3. There are two issues: > > 1. It won't build under python2.4. I have fixes for this that I haven't >uploaded (and that need some more testing and tidying up). You may still ask for help. > 2. It

Re: Move to python 2.4 / Changing the packaging style for python packages

2006-06-12 Thread Ben Burton
Hi, > With the upcoming releases of the last packages which > didn't support 2.4 yet (Plone on the Zope application server) we may > be able to drop support for 2.3 in sid and etch as well. For reference, decompyle still needs python2.3. There are two issues: 1. It won't build under python2.4.