Re: Quick analysis of the Python dist-packages transition

2009-09-18 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Fri, 18 Sep 2009, Josselin Mouette wrote: > If there are no objections, I will submit a MBF for those 75 packages in > a few days. Go ahead, we have waited too much for python 2.6 already. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-python-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

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Re: Quick analysis of the Python dist-packages transition

2009-09-18 Thread Ben Finney
Josselin Mouette writes: > Therefore, a number of packages have to be fixed before they can work > with python2.6. Practically speaking, this is the only thing that > prevents python2.6 from entering unstable. This is a first attempt at > listing packages needing to be fixed. Thank you for this

Re: Quick analysis of the Python dist-packages transition

2009-09-18 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le vendredi 18 septembre 2009 à 21:18 +0200, Josselin Mouette a écrit : > * 246 packages don’t, but should work as well provided that we > ensure python-central is fixed. I forgot to explain how exactly it needs to be fixed. > * python-central needs a NMU to > handle /usr/lib/py

Re: Quick analysis of the Python dist-packages transition

2009-09-18 Thread Mikhail Gusarov
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Quick analysis of the Python dist-packages transition

2009-09-18 Thread Josselin Mouette
Hi, starting from Python 2.6, the Debian packages look for modules in a different directory: /usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages instead of /usr/lib/python2.X/site-packages. This is handled transparently by python-central and python-support, but at install time, distutils (the thingy behind “python s

Re: [Python-modules-team] Bug#543351: logilab.astng cannot be imported after upgrade from stable

2009-09-18 Thread Sandro Tosi
Hi Alexandre & others, On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 10:21, Alexandre Fayolle wrote: > The problem I can see with removing blindly from the postinst is that > potentially you're going  to delete files belonging to other  packages (e.g. > older packages installed from Logilab's Debian repositories). The