Re: Quick Update Review

2010-08-13 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Friday, August 13, 2010 05:42:35 pm Jakub Wilk wrote: > * Scott Kitterman , 2010-08-13, 17:32: > >IMO the essential thing for Squeeze was getting X-P-V and X3-P-V > >supported. > > Well, but python-support, the most widely used helper, doesn't support > X-P-V. So what's the point of adding it t

Re: Getting rid of dh_python

2010-08-13 Thread Emilio Pozuelo Monfort
On 13/08/10 22:22, Jakub Wilk wrote: > We have currently 4 different Python helpers in the archive[0], which is > about 3 too much. dh_python has been deprecated for almost 4 years, yet > there are still ~80 packages that use it. Debian GNOME Maintainers gamin (U) This is fixed in our SVN, th

Re: Quick Update Review

2010-08-13 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Scott Kitterman , 2010-08-13, 17:32: IMO the essential thing for Squeeze was getting X-P-V and X3-P-V supported. Well, but python-support, the most widely used helper, doesn't support X-P-V. So what's the point of adding it to policy now? -- Jakub Wilk signature.asc Description: Digital

Re: Quick Update Review

2010-08-13 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Friday, August 13, 2010 04:58:37 pm Sandro Tosi wrote: > Hello, > > On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 22:47, Scott Kitterman wrote: > > On Friday, August 13, 2010 11:10:04 am Scott Kitterman wrote: > >> http://paste.debian.net/83034/ captures what I think are the essential > >> policy changes for Squeez

Re: Quick Update Review

2010-08-13 Thread Sandro Tosi
Hello, On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 22:47, Scott Kitterman wrote: > On Friday, August 13, 2010 11:10:04 am Scott Kitterman wrote: >> http://paste.debian.net/83034/ captures what I think are the essential >> policy changes for Squeeze from our discussion about the future of >> XS-Python-Version and Pyt

Re: Quick Update Review

2010-08-13 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Friday, August 13, 2010 11:10:04 am Scott Kitterman wrote: > http://paste.debian.net/83034/ captures what I think are the essential > policy changes for Squeeze from our discussion about the future of > XS-Python-Version and Python 3. Please give it a quick review and let me > know if I > misre

Getting rid of dh_python

2010-08-13 Thread Jakub Wilk
We have currently 4 different Python helpers in the archive[0], which is about 3 too much. dh_python has been deprecated for almost 4 years, yet there are still ~80 packages that use it. [0] There are also some packages that doesn't bytecompile their Python modules at all. Or that just ship *.pyc

Quick Update Review

2010-08-13 Thread Scott Kitterman
http://paste.debian.net/83034/ captures what I think are the essential policy changes for Squeeze from our discussion about the future of XS-Python-Version and Python 3. Please give it a quick review and let me know if I misrepresented the consensus. I intentionally did not include the elimina

Re: Possible Mass Bug Filing: String Exceptions Removed in Python 2.6

2010-08-13 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Scott Kitterman , 2010-06-05, 22:43: As was recently discussed on debian-python: http://lists.debian.org/debian-python/2010/05/msg00111.html String exceptions are no longer supported at all in Python 2.6. Many string exceptions has been fixed since then, but - interestingly - a few new has