Re: [Draft] Debian Python Policy 0.2

2001-10-10 Thread Gordon Tyler
> The point is probably moot anyhow since I've almost finished creating > packages using the scheme proposed by Donavon and others. I need to > update the policy and doing some more testing yet though. That's good news. I'm itching to try out some of the new features. Would I be able to assist in

Re: [Draft] Debian Python Policy 0.2

2001-10-10 Thread Neil Schemenauer
Anthony Towns wrote: > Hrm. That doesn't seem to make sense. For example, Python 2.1 supports > the Python 2.0 API completely, and Python 2.2 supports the Python 2.1 > API completely too, doesn't it? API in this context means binary API. Only Python 2.1.X supports the 2.1 API. The point is proba

Re: [Draft] Debian Python Policy 0.2

2001-10-10 Thread Anthony Towns
On Sun, Sep 30, 2001 at 01:52:00PM -0700, Neil Schemenauer wrote: > Donovan Baarda wrote: > > Hmmm, but if only "python" can provide python-api-*, then any packages that > > depend on python-api-X.Y will be broken when a new version of python > > providing python-api-X.Z comes out, and no python-X.