Re: Summary of python transition problems

2003-10-04 Thread Donovan Baarda
On Sun, 2003-10-05 at 02:55, Matthias Klose wrote: > Donovan Baarda writes: > > On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 02:28:52PM +0200, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > > > Hi, Colin Watson wrote: [...] > > The second problem is is when we get python (2.4), a new python2.3 > > package will need to be released just to f

freezing python packages until python-2.3 becomes the default in testing

2003-10-04 Thread Matthias Klose
FYI, [ This mail is sent to all package maintainers, whose packages depend on python, python2.1, python2.2 or python2.3 ] You are maintaining the following packages: To help python2.3 to enter the testing (sarge) release as the default python version, we need a whole bunch of packages to ent

Re: Summary of python transition problems

2003-10-04 Thread Matthias Klose
Donovan Baarda writes: > On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 02:28:52PM +0200, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > > Hi, Colin Watson wrote: > > > > > Incidentally, I think that python2.3 should definitely depend on python, > > > even if unversioned. This is what python2.2 in testing does, and it > > > would avoid the

Re: Summary of python transition problems

2003-10-04 Thread Donovan Baarda
On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 02:28:52PM +0200, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > Hi, Colin Watson wrote: > > > Incidentally, I think that python2.3 should definitely depend on python, > > even if unversioned. This is what python2.2 in testing does, and it > > would avoid the "I installed python2.3 but my progr