Re: Debian Python policy & Upgrade Path (draft/proposal)

2001-10-21 Thread Donovan Baarda
Quoting Matthias Klose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Carey Evans writes: > > Matthias Klose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] > Thanks. Updated in 0.3.2: > > http://ftp-master.debian.org/~doko/python/ Nice work updating Neil's policy. I'd be interested to hear Niels comments now that he is back.

Re: Debian Python policy & Upgrade Path (draft/proposal)

2001-10-21 Thread Donovan Baarda
Quoting Matthias Klose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Donovan Baarda writes: > > Good point... I'd forgotten about that. This means we might as well go > > strait to python2.1 as the default, but make sure that the > python2.1-xxx > > packages have versioned conflicts with all the packages that depend on

Re: Proposed modification to the Python Policy

2001-10-21 Thread Donovan Baarda
Quoting Jérôme Marant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Matthias Klose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Jérôme Marant writes: > > > I do propose that we install all architecture independant modules > > > in /usr/share and all architecture dependent modules in /usr/lib > > > as it has always been. [..

Re: Debian Python policy & Upgrade Path (draft/proposal)

2001-10-21 Thread Ricardo Javier Cardenes
On Sun, Oct 21, 2001 at 10:58:01PM +1300, Carey Evans wrote: > Donovan Baarda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > (Actually 60, but gimp-python also depends on python-base (<< 1.6.0)). > > Packages that depend on python: >grep-dctrl -FDepends -e 'python([ ,]|$)' Packages I maintain one of those

Re: Debian Python policy & Upgrade Path (draft/proposal)

2001-10-21 Thread Carey Evans
Matthias Klose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Carey Evans writes: > > > Another possibility is for python-base to go away, and for a new > > package that conflicts with it, and has a different name, to take its > > place. > > basically that is Neil's proposal of a python-api package. I thought p

Re: python upgrade

2001-10-21 Thread Donovan Baarda
On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 07:25:04PM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: > hmm, seems I've been kicked of the debian lists. anyway, could you > implement the scripts for your c) proposal? would it be a good idea to > put the debian directories under CVS control, so we have access to it? And I thought perha

Re: Proposed modification to the Python Policy

2001-10-21 Thread Jérôme Marant
Matthias Klose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Jérôme Marant writes: > > I do propose that we install all architecture independant modules > > in /usr/share and all architecture dependent modules in /usr/lib > > as it has always been. > > assume we have a package with an architecture independ

Re: Debian Python policy & Upgrade Path (draft/proposal)

2001-10-21 Thread Matthias Klose
Donovan Baarda writes: > Good point... I'd forgotten about that. This means we might as well go > strait to python2.1 as the default, but make sure that the python2.1-xxx > packages have versioned conflicts with all the packages that depend on just > python or python-base and install into /usr/lib/

Re: Proposed modification to the Python Policy

2001-10-21 Thread Matthias Klose
Jérôme Marant writes: > I do propose that we install all architecture independant modules > in /usr/share and all architecture dependent modules in /usr/lib > as it has always been. assume we have a package with an architecture independant module and an architecture dependent module. Then we

Proposed modification to the Python Policy

2001-10-21 Thread Jérôme Marant
Hi, Since no mass uploads have happened yet, I think it is still worth changing the following. I do propose that we install all architecture independant modules in /usr/share and all architecture dependent modules in /usr/lib as it has always been. This won't break anything since th

Re: Debian Python policy & Upgrade Path (draft/proposal)

2001-10-21 Thread Matthias Klose
Carey Evans writes: > Donovan Baarda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Good point... I'd forgotten about that. This means we might as well go > > strait to python2.1 as the default, but make sure that the python2.1-xxx > > packages have versioned conflicts with all the packages that depend on just

Re: Debian Python policy & Upgrade Path (draft/proposal)

2001-10-21 Thread Matthias Klose
Donovan Baarda writes: > On Sun, Oct 21, 2001 at 10:27:54AM +1300, Carey Evans wrote: > > Matthias Klose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > [...] > > > > > exactly. But you see that these packages will break when you try to > > > upgrade. We can't make 2.1 the default right now, because we will

Re: Debian Python policy & Upgrade Path (draft/proposal)

2001-10-21 Thread Matthias Klose
Carey Evans writes: > Matthias Klose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > [...] > > > 2.4. Dependencies > > - > > > > Packaged modules must depend on `python-base (> .)' and > > `python-base (<< .)'. > > (>= .), right? > > Shouldn't this explain just what . is? I assume i

Re: Debian Python policy & Upgrade Path (draft/proposal)

2001-10-21 Thread Carey Evans
Donovan Baarda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Good point... I'd forgotten about that. This means we might as well go > strait to python2.1 as the default, but make sure that the python2.1-xxx > packages have versioned conflicts with all the packages that depend on just > python or python-base and i

Re: Debian Python policy & Upgrade Path (draft/proposal)

2001-10-21 Thread Donovan Baarda
On Sun, Oct 21, 2001 at 10:27:54AM +1300, Carey Evans wrote: > Matthias Klose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > [...] > > > exactly. But you see that these packages will break when you try to > > upgrade. We can't make 2.1 the default right now, because we will > > _silently_ break packages. Before