Re: Debian Python Policy [draft]

2001-10-03 Thread Donovan Baarda
Quoting Neil Schemenauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Donovan Baarda wrote: > > In my above diagrams the (>=2.1,<2.2) dependancy could be replaced > with a > > python-api-2.1 provided by python (as suggested by Neil), but I think > this > > actually introduces confusion rather than convenience. The pr

Re: (another set of) experimental packages (1.5, 2.1, 2.2a4)

2001-10-03 Thread Donovan Baarda
G'day, Hope you don't mind me Cc'ing to you guys. Let me know if you don't like it and I'll stop. Quoting Matthias Klose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: [...] > Open issue(s): > > - didn't handle the conversion/recompilation of /usr/local python > packages. Some other questions; what happens with othe

(another set of) experimental packages (1.5, 2.1, 2.2a4)

2001-10-03 Thread Matthias Klose
In http://master.debian.org/~doko/python you find another set of experimental packages for python. These packages are derived of the packages from Gregor Hoffleit at http://people.debian.org/~flight. Major changes are: - converted python1.5-doc package - new python2.1-doc package - add missing tr

Re: Debian Python policy.

2001-10-03 Thread David Maslen
Donovan Baarda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] > IMHO, the best solution given what you have described above is to make each > new release of python as a "python-X.Y" package that installs > "/usr/bin/pythonX.Y", and have another small "python" package which depends > on the latest "python-X.Y"