Re: Re: Challenges packaging Python for a Linux distro - at Python Language Summit

2021-05-16 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
(apologies i forgot to say, please do cc me, i am using the list archives reply-to links at https://lists.debian.org/debian-python/2021/05/msg00036.html) Thomas Goirand wrote: > All the horrors that you are painting after this paragraph, are due to > the fact that you aren't doing "apt-get dist-

Request to join Debian Python Team

2021-05-16 Thread Joseph Nuthalapati
Dear DPT, I am a contributor to FreedomBox, a Debian pure blend for home servers. The main package in the FreedomBox project is a Django-based web application. Automated testing of this web application in the browser is done using a set of tools based on Selenium and Pytest. However, some of

Re: Challenges packaging Python for a Linux distro - at Python Language Summit

2021-05-16 Thread Brian May
Thomas Goirand writes: > All the horrors that you are painting after this paragraph, are due to > the fact that you aren't doing "apt-get dist-upgrade". I'm having a hard > time understanding why you're both: > - not doing "apt-get dist-upgrade" > - complaining that it's breaking your system > >

Re: Challenges packaging Python for a Linux distro - at Python Language Summit

2021-05-16 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 5/16/21 1:52 PM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: >> * One 3.x version at a time. Doesn't line up with cpython's support terms. > > folks, deep breath here: this is much more important than the one line > summary suggests. > > for some background: i have been using debian since 1996 and pyt

Re: Challenges packaging Python for a Linux distro - at Python Language Summit

2021-05-16 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Sun, May 16, 2021 at 12:52 PM Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > to fix this, there needs to be a stable overlap where multiple compiled > versions > are installed and maintained. to fix the problem, the rule needs to be set: > > * any given version of python *MUST* cross over from one deb

Re: Challenges packaging Python for a Linux distro - at Python Language Summit

2021-05-16 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
> * One 3.x version at a time. Doesn't line up with cpython's support terms. folks, deep breath here: this is much more important than the one line summary suggests. for some background: i have been using debian since 1996 and python for 20+ years, dating back to python 2.0. due to the massive a