Re: "search.html doesn't look like a Sphinx search page"

2012-02-25 Thread Lars Wirzenius
On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 08:00:26PM +0100, Pietro Battiston wrote: > I want to make clear that I do not oppose the view that Google > Analytics should be stripped off from documentation... I'm just saying > that as far as I understand the policy doesn't state that. _Also_ > because it doesn't mentio

Re: restarting processes when python libraries are upgraded?

2011-06-20 Thread Lars Wirzenius
On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 11:59:44AM +0200, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > On 06/20/2011 10:50 AM, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 11:51:30AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > >> Since python doesn't keep .py files open its hard to use things like > >> checkrest

Re: restarting processes when python libraries are upgraded?

2011-06-20 Thread Lars Wirzenius
On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 11:51:30AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > Since python doesn't keep .py files open its hard to use things like > checkrestart to find out which servers to restart when upgrading a > python library for security updates. I wonder if a dpkg triggers based > mechanism could perform t

Re: ITP or RFP

2011-05-23 Thread Lars Wirzenius
On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 05:43:43PM +0200, Nicolas CANIART wrote: > I'm going to package the following python module I need: > python-django-gerbi-cms  (http://packages.python.org/django-page-cms/) > > I would like to now whether I should file an RFP or ITP bug report since I am > no debian maintai

Introduction

2011-04-23 Thread Lars Wirzenius
Hi, I'd like to join the DPMT. I'm going to be uploading my backup application (Obnam, http://braawi.org/obnam/) to Debian, and it has a number of dependencies on Python libraries, which I've also written. I'm starting with the dependencies. In order to have the packages maintained as well as pos

Re: Need help with revelation

2008-12-23 Thread Lars Wirzenius
ma, 2008-12-22 kello 21:00 +, b...@bc-bd.org kirjoitti: > Hello debian-python, > > I have been maintaining revelation in the past, a GNOME2 Password manager. I > will most likely orphan this package because: Before this gets removed from the archive: is there a good replacement? -- To UNS

Re: python2.5 fails to import pygtk and gtk modules

2007-01-16 Thread Lars Wirzenius
On ti, 2007-01-16 at 09:53 +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > Maybe there should be a big warning in the release notes (or > elsewhere) that python2.5 supports NOT the loading of (certain?) > external modules... Sure, something like "Python 2.5 is included in etch, but is not fully supported by

Re: python2.5 fails to import pygtk and gtk modules

2007-01-15 Thread Lars Wirzenius
Gah, I meant to press control-Backspace, not control-Enter. Sorry. On ma, 2007-01-15 at 16:28 +, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > On ma, 2007-01-15 at 18:15 +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > > Is there work done on this? If not may python2.5 be removed from Etch, > > or should I f

Re: python2.5 fails to import pygtk and gtk modules

2007-01-15 Thread Lars Wirzenius
On ma, 2007-01-15 at 18:15 +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > On 1/2/07, Matthias Klose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Alexandre Fayolle writes: > > > Am I the only one with a mixed feeling about this? I mean, we spent time > > > last spring updating our packages to use the new Python policy, wri

Re: Bug#382252: Python PATH problem

2007-01-03 Thread Lars Wirzenius
On ke, 2007-01-03 at 18:14 +0100, Wouter van Heyst wrote: > Pierre already mentioned that is not the problem, but I'd like to > explicitly state that that would make it impossible to run applications > if you only have the .pyc files, a valid use-case, although not > something that will arise from

How to package a single Python file?

2003-08-31 Thread Lars Wirzenius
I am both the upstream developer and Debian packager of Lodju, a digital photo organizer. The version of the package that is now in Debian is written in C, but I am rewriting it in Python. Lodju needs to read the EXIF headers in image files. These are headers that a digital camera adds to a JPEG a

Re: Python policy update

2003-08-26 Thread Lars Wirzenius
On su, 2003-08-24 at 08:38, Joe Wreschnig wrote: > On Sat, 2003-08-23 at 23:54, Donovan Baarda wrote: > > The problem is, run pydance as any user with write permissions to > > /usr/share/games/pydance, and the *.py's there will be compiled and > > saved as *.pyc's using whatever version of python w

Re: Woody backports of Python2.[23]

2003-08-20 Thread Lars Wirzenius
On ke, 2003-08-20 at 10:59, Andreas Tille wrote: > are there any apt-get sources for Python2.[23] for Woody? http://packages.debian.org/stable/interpreters/python2.2.html Python 2.2.1 is in woody proper. Unstable has 2.2.3. I don't know about backports (neither in general, nor about Python 2.3 i

Re: python 2.2 to python 2.3 transition

2003-08-10 Thread Lars Wirzenius
On su, 2003-08-10 at 15:56, Josselin Mouette wrote: > If you can provide a good solution to achieve this, it will surely be > welcome. In the meantime, please don't do what you describe with > packages shipping .py files. You should depend on python (>= 2.3), > python (<< 2.4) - this can be done au

Re: python 2.2 to python 2.3 transition

2003-08-10 Thread Lars Wirzenius
I subscribe debian-python. Please don't Cc me when you reply to the list. On su, 2003-08-10 at 13:06, Matthias Klose wrote: > Lars Wirzenius writes: > > Um, yeah, it does contain a .pyc. I don't think it should: the postinst > > compiles the eoc.py file. The inclusion of

Re: python 2.2 to python 2.3 transition

2003-08-10 Thread Lars Wirzenius
On su, 2003-08-10 at 10:55, Matthias Klose wrote: > This seems to be a common misunderstanding. Therefore the CC to > debian-python that I have something as a reference. ACK. (I'm on -python, so further Cc's are not necessary.) > Lars Wirzenius writes: > > As far as I kn

Python policy: why not on Developer's Corner?

2002-12-15 Thread Lars Wirzenius
I'm about to package a (small) Python module, and am thus reading the Python policy document. Why is it not mentioned on the Developer's Corner web page (http://www.debian.org/devel/) together with the other policy documents, such as those for Emacs and Java? Also, section 2.1 ("Rationale: A diffe