Re: Debian Python policy.

2001-10-03 Thread David Maslen
Donovan Baarda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] > IMHO, the best solution given what you have described above is to make each > new release of python as a "python-X.Y" package that installs > "/usr/bin/pythonX.Y", and have another small "python" package which depends > on the latest "python-X.Y"

Re: Question for the transition

2001-09-05 Thread David Maslen
Neil Schemenauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Jim Penny wrote: > > This is not all that simple. python2.1 conflicts with zope2.3.x > > and python1.5 conflicts with zope2.4.x. > > In that case I think it's better to create python1.5 and zope2.3 > legacy packages for people who can't upgrade. I p

Re: Intent for NMU of python-2.1 packages

2001-09-04 Thread David Maslen
Gregor Hoffleit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > How does that sound ? I think it sounds like an awful lot of work. I still don't really understand why we keep python1.5, but presumably there are some good reasons, and I trust the debian team to have thrashed that out by now. You mentioned emacs, w

Python 2.1

2001-09-02 Thread David Maslen
I've read through archives on this in the past, feel free to suggest other URL's if this is a discussed to death topic, but; Python 2.1 in now GPL compatable right? I saw some 2.1 packages in one of the debian developers home directories. They aren't release though, and that can be a little annoy