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-

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* cros

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

[owner@bugs.debian.org: Bug#193838: Info received (was Bug#193838: libgcc1: installation of libgcc1:3.3-2 causes failure of massive number of programs)]

2003-05-19 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
... one of which is python. thought you should know. l. - Forwarded message from Debian Bug Tracking System <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Envelope-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Debian Bug Tracking System) To: Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>