Re: Quick analysis of the Python dist-packages transition

2009-09-25 Thread Emilio Pozuelo Monfort
Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 12:36:09PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: >> Done, omitting a reported false positive and a few packages fixed in the >> meantime. >> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?users=debian-pyt...@lists.debian.org;tag=python2.6 > > Thanks. > >

Re: Quick analysis of the Python dist-packages transition

2009-09-25 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 12:36:09PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Done, omitting a reported false positive and a few packages fixed in the > meantime. > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?users=debian-pyt...@lists.debian.org;tag=python2.6 Thanks. Question: why the severity is only "im

Re: Quick analysis of the Python dist-packages transition

2009-09-22 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le vendredi 18 septembre 2009 à 21:18 +0200, Josselin Mouette a écrit : > If there are no objections, I will submit a MBF for those 75 packages in > a few days. Done, omitting a reported false positive and a few packages fixed in the meantime. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?users=d

Re: Quick analysis of the Python dist-packages transition

2009-09-20 Thread Piotr Ożarowski
[Steve Langasek, 2009-09-20] > On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 09:18:16PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > * 505 of these packages do not use distutils and should not be > > affected, still shipping files to site-packages/. However, > > according to Scott Kimmermann (who handled par

Re: Quick analysis of the Python dist-packages transition

2009-09-20 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 09:18:16PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > * 505 of these packages do not use distutils and should not be > affected, still shipping files to site-packages/. However, > according to Scott Kimmermann (who handled parts of this > transition in Ub

Re: Quick analysis of the Python dist-packages transition

2009-09-19 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 09:18:16PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > If there are no objections, I will submit a MBF for those 75 packages > in a few days. Many thanks for the investigation. I concur that we have already waited too much for Python 2.6, so please go ahead. In filing the bugs, pleas

Re: Quick analysis of the Python dist-packages transition

2009-09-18 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Fri, 18 Sep 2009, Josselin Mouette wrote: > If there are no objections, I will submit a MBF for those 75 packages in > a few days. Go ahead, we have waited too much for python 2.6 already. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a s

Re: Quick analysis of the Python dist-packages transition

2009-09-18 Thread Ben Finney
Josselin Mouette writes: > Therefore, a number of packages have to be fixed before they can work > with python2.6. Practically speaking, this is the only thing that > prevents python2.6 from entering unstable. This is a first attempt at > listing packages needing to be fixed. Thank you for this

Re: Quick analysis of the Python dist-packages transition

2009-09-18 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le vendredi 18 septembre 2009 à 21:18 +0200, Josselin Mouette a écrit : > * 246 packages don’t, but should work as well provided that we > ensure python-central is fixed. I forgot to explain how exactly it needs to be fixed. > * python-central needs a NMU to > handle /usr/lib/py

Quick analysis of the Python dist-packages transition

2009-09-18 Thread Josselin Mouette
Hi, starting from Python 2.6, the Debian packages look for modules in a different directory: /usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages instead of /usr/lib/python2.X/site-packages. This is handled transparently by python-central and python-support, but at install time, distutils (the thingy behind “python s