Re: Python transition

2003-10-07 Thread John Goerzen
On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 08:29:12PM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: > Packages, that are too young are not considered for migration to > testing. As these packages have a dependency on "python (>=2.3)", they Few, if any, of my packages have such a dependency. In most packages, I depend on the specifi

Re: Python transition

2003-10-07 Thread Matthias Klose
John Goerzen writes: > On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 07:18:41PM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: > > The e-mail I sent made several exceptions from the freeze, one of them > > fixing RC reports. So yes, you are supposed to fix these problems > > yourself. As I introduced this RC in 0.5.1-5.1, I fixed it in >

Re: Python transition

2003-10-07 Thread John Goerzen
On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 07:18:41PM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: > The e-mail I sent made several exceptions from the freeze, one of them > fixing RC reports. So yes, you are supposed to fix these problems > yourself. As I introduced this RC in 0.5.1-5.1, I fixed it in > 0.5.1-5.2. Which is nice, b

Re: Summary of python transition problems

2003-10-07 Thread Matthias Klose
Colin Watson writes: > On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 11:40:50AM +1000, Donovan Baarda wrote: > > On Sun, 2003-10-05 at 02:55, Matthias Klose wrote: > > > Donovan Baarda writes: > > > > The second problem is is when we get python (2.4), a new python2.3 > > > > package will need to be released just to fix

Re: Python transition

2003-10-07 Thread Matthias Klose
John Goerzen writes: > Hello, > > I hope I am not alone in this. > > I find the whole Python transition process to be rather confusing. For > instance, I recently received an e-mail asking me not to upload various > Python packages. A day later, one of them got NMU'd. I am confused; what > exa

Python transition

2003-10-07 Thread John Goerzen
Hello, I hope I am not alone in this. I find the whole Python transition process to be rather confusing. For instance, I recently received an e-mail asking me not to upload various Python packages. A day later, one of them got NMU'd. I am confused; what exactly is the problem and why would a s

Re: Summary of python transition problems

2003-10-07 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 11:40:50AM +1000, Donovan Baarda wrote: > On Sun, 2003-10-05 at 02:55, Matthias Klose wrote: > > Donovan Baarda writes: > > > The second problem is is when we get python (2.4), a new python2.3 > > > package will need to be released just to fix the dependencies. The > > > Pyt

Status of python packages (20031007)

2003-10-07 Thread Matthias Klose
changes from 20031003: - missing s390 builds done - some progress for missing m68k builds - some RC reports fixed nearly no changes for missing mips/mipsel builds. does somebody has free resources on a mips machine to rebuild these packages? Matthias missing builds: gimp-pytho