Fwd: Re: multiple pythons and the default

2006-05-10 Thread Bruce Sass
opps, should have sent this one to the list Sorry for the dup, Marc. -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: multiple pythons and the default Date: Wed May 10 2006 14:31 From: Bruce Sass <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Marc Dequènes (Duck) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Wed May 10 2006 07:26, you

Re: on packaging TurboGears 0.8.9

2006-05-10 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
Bob, Pythoners, Em Qua, 2006-05-03 às 22:35 -0500, Bob Tanner escreveu: > > I plan to add turbogears and json-py to the python-modules team; Bob, > > what say you? Have you made any work on this front? Should I go on and > > upload those packages to Debian? > > I have most of those packages (some

Re: Thoughts on apps supporting multiple versions of python

2006-05-10 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 08:34:37PM +0200, Marc Dequènes wrote: > > As Steve suggested, this can be solved by introducing a new variable > > named ${python:Provides} in dh_python, which will read the .version as > > well. Then, python-editobj will have a > > Provides: python2.3-editobj, python2

Re: Thoughts on apps supporting multiple versions of python

2006-05-10 Thread Duck
Coin Joss, Josselin Mouette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > As Steve suggested, this can be solved by introducing a new variable > named ${python:Provides} in dh_python, which will read the .version as > well. Then, python-editobj will have a > Provides: python2.3-editobj, python2.4-editobj

Re: Thoughts on apps supporting multiple versions of python

2006-05-10 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mercredi 10 mai 2006 à 16:32 +0200, Marc Dequènes a écrit : > I wonder how some situations (if existing) may be solved as long as we > have unique non-versioned scripts-only packages and compiled modules > cohabiting. When for eg python2.4-soya needs editobj, it just depends on > python-editobj

Re: Thoughts on apps supporting multiple versions of python

2006-05-10 Thread Duck
Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Wow, what a constructive response. You've surely been on this list for > years and must know all the changes that need to be made to Debian's python > policy. Why didn't you reply to Bruce's original question with your own > superior write-up of this

Re: multiple pythons and the default

2006-05-10 Thread Duck
Coin, Bruce Sass <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Isn't one of the objectives to reduce the number of Pythons in Debian, > so at some point not all versions will be available... I don't think there is any reason to reduce user's liberty by forcing them to use one specific version. > ...then there