Re: Why is ${python3:Depends} injecting cython3-legacy (Was: obitools: runtime dependency on cython)

2023-12-17 Thread Steve Langasek
17 Dec 2023 at 18:15, Andreas Tille wrote: > > > Is there > > > any better way than editing debian/obitools.substvars in d/rules by > > > adding some override_dh_gencontrol? > > > > Remove the line: > > > > Cython>=0.24 > > > > fro

Re: packaging DiscoDOS - a cli tool for vinyl DJs

2020-05-17 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sat, May 16, 2020 at 11:09:33AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > On Fri, 2020-05-15 at 19:56 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > FTR, UbuntuStudio is an official Ubuntu flavor, not a derivative ;) > Woops. Did that change at some point or did I mix them up with another > distro or jus

Re: packaging DiscoDOS - a cli tool for vinyl DJs

2020-05-15 Thread Steve Langasek
FTR, UbuntuStudio is an official Ubuntu flavor, not a derivative ;) -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer https://www.debian.or

Re: MBF for deprecating Python2 usage

2017-08-07 Thread Steve Langasek
r/bin/gcc, etc. are always symlinks to the real interpreter on Debian, not wrapper scripts - other distributions have tried to do this as a wrapper script and the result wasn't pretty. Avoiding the performance hit would require that any changes to the banner be made in the python source itself.

Re: packaging problems with python3.5 and python 3.6

2017-08-02 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Aug 02, 2017 at 12:10:05PM -0400, ba...@debian.org wrote: > On Jul 30, 2017, at 02:41, Steve Langasek wrote: > >> https://wiki.debian.org/Python/LibraryStyleGuide where it states: > >>You'll want to have at least the following build dependencies: >

Re: packaging problems with python3.5 and python 3.6

2017-07-29 Thread Steve Langasek
l because without it, build-time tests failed for python3. If I also added python-lxml, that was purely a cut'n'paste error. > BTW, does it make sense to upload another -1 version to ftp-master > to replace the one in the NEW queue? AFAIK you would need to get the ftpmasters to rej

Re: packaging problems with python3.5 and python 3.6

2017-07-29 Thread Steve Langasek
llowing commit > https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/collab-maint/html5-parser.git/commit/?id=4a8e02b20698e35e577482f96efdeb17826d797f > which I reverted afterwards. > Thanks a lot and all the best Thanks, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a F

Re: Python3.6 plans​ for Buster

2017-06-16 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Jun 16, 2017 at 10:23:06PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > [1] pytables is a failure specific to Ubuntu armhf buildds which raise > SIGBUS, this should not affect Debian. python-astropy rebuilds with no > problem, but doesn't pick up python3.6 support. To clarify: python-ast

Re: Python3.6 plans​ for Buster

2017-06-16 Thread Steve Langasek
3.6 added as supported should already have patches filed in the Debian BTS. The rebuild with python3.6 as default is also now in progress for Ubuntu; test build results can be seen here: https://launchpad.net/~canonical-foundations/+archive/ubuntu/python3.6-as-default Hope that helps, -- Steve L

avoiding regressions with python3-all-dev in between transitions?

2017-05-19 Thread Steve Langasek
version that is just symlinked on the filesystem to the default version? -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developerhttp://ww

Re: Build fails: Architecture: all, no ‘python3-dev’, but ‘setup.py’ expects it

2016-06-12 Thread Steve Langasek
ny”. > What is broken here? How can I find out? I believe this is a regression in python3.5 3.5.1-15. Similar build failures were seen with this version in Ubuntu. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set

Re: django-pipeline

2016-03-22 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 09:21:19AM +1100, Brian May wrote: > Steve Langasek writes: > > No. I first noticed this bug because the package failed to build in > > Ubuntu[1], which uses sbuild, not pbuilder. I reproduced the failure in a > > clean sid schroot. I thi

Re: django-pipeline

2016-03-22 Thread Steve Langasek
No. I first noticed this bug because the package failed to build in Ubuntu[1], which uses sbuild, not pbuilder. I reproduced the failure in a clean sid schroot. I think either your sbuild environment is not clean, or it is not up-to-date. -- Steve Langasek Give me a

Re: I've been removed from the Python team

2015-09-30 Thread Steve Langasek
y kind. It's not my place to judge whether this was a correct disciplinary action for the DPMT, of which I am not a member; but for the record, this does not in any way prevent Thomas from continuing to maintain *his* packages. The DPMT doesn't block a maintainer from moving their packages

Re: so you want to migrate DPMT/PAPT to git? look at what pgk-perl did!

2015-08-17 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 11:10:26AM -0400, Barry Warsaw wrote: > On Aug 15, 2015, at 08:24 PM, Vincent Bernat wrote: > >So, what's the situation? Should we do something during this Debconf? > JFDI. :) Yes, let's! -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever lon

Re: DebConf14 svn->git migration BOF notes

2014-08-30 Thread Steve Langasek
Relatively few at this point, but there is a session here at DebConf14 this evening that will be streamed and might be worth following: https://summit.debconf.org/debconf14/meeting/75/dgit-treat-the-archive-as-a-git-remote/ -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough a

Re: favouring Python3 in the Debian policy

2014-05-07 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, May 07, 2014 at 11:43:24PM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: > Am 07.05.2014 23:01, schrieb Steve Langasek: > > On Wed, May 07, 2014 at 10:15:37PM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: > >> Am 07.05.2014 17:27, schrieb Barry Warsaw: > >>>> + ++ +

Re: favouring Python3 in the Debian policy

2014-05-07 Thread Steve Langasek
d, I think it's more important that we make sure the base system is leading by example. As described on debian-devel[1], there seem to be some porting blockers before we can migrate from python to python3 in the standard install. [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2014/04/msg00784.html

Re: [PATCH] Support :any architecture qualifiers for multiarch

2014-04-20 Thread Steve Langasek
ooth wheezy->jessie upgrades is not even remotely funny. This has no impact on upgrades. Why would you expect cross-installing anything as part of an upgrade? -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can

Re: Using git-svn and gbp for DPMT - Was: Re: Joining the DPMT and git.debian.org access

2014-01-21 Thread Steve Langasek
] > export-dir = ../build-area/ > to make sure no contributors dirties the git with build files (yes, you > can do that in your ~/.gbp.conf, and the system configuration file in > /etc, but the point here is to make sure *everyone* uses the build-area). Right... these are things the e

Re: Python 3 as default

2013-12-07 Thread Steve Langasek
s with only python3 installed. Would you accept patches to reportbug and apt-listchanges to move them to python3? Cheers, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer

Re: Python 3 as default

2013-12-04 Thread Steve Langasek
lly needed changed in order to swap python for python3 in the default install - lsb-release is one of them, and I don't remember offhand what the others were. In short, I see no reason why Debian would want to stick with python2 by default in Jessie. The barrier is much lower than i

Re: Simplified library style guide based on pybuild

2013-11-10 Thread Steve Langasek
meant to use the check_auto_buildable method to declare whether they should or should not be used. Why can pybuild not autodetect? Thanks, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the

Re: Using ‘export http_proxy = http://127.0.9.1:9/’ to fail noisily on dependency problems

2013-10-14 Thread Steve Langasek
depend on udebs, they are not installable on a full system; so they must be downloaded from the mirror. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer

Re: [PATCH] Support :any architecture qualifiers for multiarch

2013-09-19 Thread Steve Langasek
> Don't detect anything. Add an option (say, --multiarch-me-harder), > so that maintainers can opt-in for :any dependencies. That doesn't sound to me like it's optimizing for the common case. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Dev

Re: [PATCH] Support :any architecture qualifiers for multiarch

2013-09-18 Thread Steve Langasek
's python, we could generate dependencies such as: python:any (>= 2.7.5-5) | python (>= 2.6.6-3) which I think would DTRT in all cases except where you try to cross-install on top of the wheezy python, which is a negligible use case. -- Steve Lan

Re: Please install /usr/bin/python2

2013-09-15 Thread Steve Langasek
r/bin/python2 compatibility benefits our users, yes. Promoting its use, or making /usr/bin/python incompatible with the many existing scripts running on older Debian releases, does not. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer

Re: PEP 394 and shebang lines for /usr/bin/python2 scripts

2013-07-24 Thread Steve Langasek
ying that /usr/bin/python should change to python3 *any > time soon*. I say that it shouldn't change *ever*. API versioning is important. It's not less important for interpreter shebangs than it is for sonames. Just because Arch screwed up doesn&

Re: On robustness of maintainer scripts

2013-05-21 Thread Steve Langasek
o be discussed on debian-devel because they can have system-wide repercussions. Can you please kick off a thread to discuss this there? > I don't share the opinion on the severity of #709198, and how it should be > fixed, if we are going this route of keeping the python interpreter workin

Re: On robustness of maintainer scripts

2013-05-13 Thread Steve Langasek
sure new library deps are listed in pre-depends instead of depends. Yet I think this should be entertained as an alternative to increasing the amount of code duplicated across hundreds of maintainer scripts. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS D

Re: Accepted python-defaults 2.7.3-5 (source all)

2013-05-06 Thread Steve Langasek
fered with other transitions given that it comes at the beginning of the release cycle - I would suggest moving on to more constructive topics. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set i

Re: Solving the multiarch triplet once and for all

2012-12-18 Thread Steve Langasek
n; and as Dmitrijs mentions, being able to cross-build packages that use python too. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developerhttp://www.d

Re: #! /usr/bin/python{,3} -Es

2012-10-25 Thread Steve Langasek
's reasonable to work around that one known case, but why spend any effort on this problem unless and until we see a pattern of such abuse (where "a pattern" is N>1)? -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer

Re: Question about dh_python2

2012-08-08 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Aug 08, 2012 at 01:10:00PM +0400, Dmitry Shachnev wrote: > This can be caused by extra space in your override_dh_auto_install > line: it should be "dh_auto_install --prefix=/usr" without space after > "--". No, it shouldn't. --prefix is not an argum

Re: Combining the wiki pages

2011-06-28 Thread Steve Langasek
debian.org/Python/PyCentral2DhPython2 > http://wiki.debian.org/Python/PythonSupportToDHPython2 > Any objections if I do that? I think the current pages strike the right balance between maintainability and having an easy, linear document that maintainers can follow. IMHO it would be nice to keep

Re: Problems with python-central+cdbs -> dh_python2+cdbs

2011-06-10 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 03:27:00PM -0400, Barry Warsaw wrote: > On Jun 10, 2011, at 10:09 AM, Steve Langasek wrote: > >Did you try with: > > DEB_PYTHON2_MODULE_PACKAGES = ubuntu-system-service > Bingo! > >This is a list of Debian package names, not python package

Re: Problems with python-central+cdbs -> dh_python2+cdbs

2011-06-10 Thread Steve Langasek
uggestions are welcome. Or, if you have an example diff showing the > conversion of a python-central+cdbs package to dh_python2+cdbs, I would love > to see it. I don't have an example, because my test case also got converted from cdbs to dh(1) in the middle of the night ;-) -- Steve Lang

Re: E: dh_python2:146: you most probably have to build extension for python2.5.

2011-03-10 Thread Steve Langasek
her than _build? Anyway, I'd be surprised if this couldn't be reduced to: override_dh_auto_build: dh_auto_build -- --install-layout=deb Furthermore, I'd be surprised to learn that dh_auto_* weren't already passing --install-layout=deb. However, AIUI the main concern

Re: Switching to git

2011-03-06 Thread Steve Langasek
is a mercurial-buildpackage but I don't know how feature complete/ > comparable to git-buildpackage or svn-buildpackage it is. > How well does debcommit work with mercurial or bazaar? debcommit works perfectly well in bazaar. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever lo

Re: Switching to git

2011-03-06 Thread Steve Langasek
tory the way git's are? I don't know why you would say that merging is more difficult in bzr, frankly. Perhaps you're comparing bzr merging with the seemingly common git practice of discarding revision history as a substitute for doing an actual DVCS merge? Having done merges i

Re: Switching to git

2011-03-06 Thread Steve Langasek
the decision is for git, please take care with the branch layout so that git-buildpackage *does* work out of the box, and please *do* use the pristine-tar options. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set

Re: Python 2.7 in, Python 2.5 out, dh_python2

2011-03-06 Thread Steve Langasek
keywords like "dh_python2". Maybe a name like "Python/PythonSupportToDHPython2" would be better (with a backwards-compatible redirect added)? I think that would help make this a little easier to find... and certainly make it easier for me to figure out what I'm going to find at

Re: problem installing a package

2010-08-09 Thread Steve Langasek
, I would encourage you to report bugs against lintian (preferably with patches) for these issues. (Ideally, cc:ing debian-python on the bug reports, so that we don't accidentally wind up with lintian checks that don't match the consensus understanding of how python packages are supposed to work

Re: Proposed Email to the release team about XS/B-P-V

2010-06-23 Thread Steve Langasek
27;t think the arguments for consolidating on python-foo apply here. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developerhttp://www.debia

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

2010-06-09 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Jun 09, 2010 at 09:05:49PM +0200, Sandro Tosi wrote: > On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 01:39, Steve Langasek wrote: > >> Please reply to debian-python with fix reports or reports of false > >> positives. > > Not quite either of these, but in a similar vein, I'

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

2010-06-06 Thread Steve Langasek
probably be exempted from the MBF. Cheers, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developerhttp://www.debian.org/ slanga...

Re: binNMUs for python2.6

2010-01-24 Thread Steve Langasek
stable [1]. > Why currently compiling a package which contains binary extensions only > build them for python 2.5? There could be a number of reasons (including a bug in python-defaults that no one noticed yet). What source package are you looking at? -- Steve Langasek Giv

Re: please upload python2.6 to unstable

2010-01-12 Thread Steve Langasek
s the new maintainer of python, then based on a sample size of one TC member, I would disagree. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer

Re: please upload python2.6 to unstable

2010-01-12 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 09:17:44AM +0100, Pietro Battiston wrote: > Il giorno mar, 12/01/2010 alle 00.06 -0800, Steve Langasek ha scritto: > > On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 08:56:08AM +0100, Sandro Tosi wrote: > > > On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 08:39, Andreas Tille wrote: > > >

Re: please upload python2.6 to unstable

2010-01-12 Thread Steve Langasek
ound like some sort of noble enterprise for the good of Debian. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer

Re: RFC: Proposed updates to the Python Policy to reflect current practices

2009-12-11 Thread Steve Langasek
current pythonX.Y executable. The python package must also depend on the appropriate pythonX.Y to -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer

Re: Lintian warnings for Python packaging?

2009-11-01 Thread Steve Langasek
t;pedantic" (people - e.g., me - don't agree that this check is correct). But I don't see the point in adding pedantic tags to lintian. :) The rest seem ok to me. Cheers, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer

Re: Quick analysis of the Python dist-packages transition

2009-09-20 Thread Steve Langasek
-central needs to be NMUed to handle > such packages. There is no bug filed against python-central for this. An NMU would be out of order. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and

Re: XS-Python-Version vs pyversions

2009-09-09 Thread Steve Langasek
; > * patch /usr/bin/pyversions to use them instead > > * or introduce a new script that does this, and get cdbs and dh7 > > to use it instead > If there is really a consensus about that, it would not be too hard to > implement > it in d

Re: XS-Python-Version vs pyversions

2009-09-08 Thread Steve Langasek
are not documentation. They're documentation that you're wrong. Stop wasting my time. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer

Re: XS-Python-Version vs pyversions

2009-09-08 Thread Steve Langasek
he responses in this thread show that the list is far more beset with python-support apologists now, who are even less willing to approach the problem from a policy perspective and are only interested in defending their favorite tool. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough

Re: XS-Python-Version vs pyversions

2009-09-07 Thread Steve Langasek
nilaterally implement helpers that don't do what was asked for. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developerhttp

Re: XS-Python-Version vs pyversions

2009-09-07 Thread Steve Langasek
never been > more than an implementation detail for python-central. They were part of the design that came out of the python packaging BoF in DebConf 6 that you then proceeded to ignore entirely. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer

Re: XS-Python-Version vs pyversions

2009-09-06 Thread Steve Langasek
versions without XS-Python-Version when you > use python-support, just ignore this notice. FSVO "fine" that includes "completely destroying the value of the python policy for the Debian release team". The right answer here is to file a bug against cdbs telling it to

Re: XS-Python-Version vs pyversions

2009-09-06 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sat, Sep 05, 2009 at 08:40:30PM -0700, Ludovico Cavedon wrote: > Steve Langasek debian.org> writes: > > The XS-Python-Version field was specified as a tool for detecting, without > > having to download and inspect individual source packages, that a given > > package can

Re: XS-Python-Version vs pyversions

2009-09-05 Thread Steve Langasek
tool for detecting, without having to download and inspect individual source packages, that a given package can be successfully rebuilt for a python transition, to aid the release team in this work. The python-support maintainer's decision to undermine this doesn't represent bes

Re: Piotrek's new preferred Python helper tool - (unfair) decision

2009-03-02 Thread Steve Langasek
make pretty obvious to anyone not convinced yet > that -central can't really be considered a “chosen one”, no? So how does python-support address this bug without instead making python-based programs excessively brittle during upgrades? There are tradeoffs here. -- Steve Langa

Re: Bzr lightweight checkout, bzr shallow branches, and git

2009-03-02 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 05:30:57PM -0500, Ondrej Certik wrote: > On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 3:44 PM, Steve Langasek wrote: > > My rebuttal is that if git is technical superior to bazaar because bazaar > > has a mechanism to create repositories with only partial history, then > >

Re: Bzr lightweight checkout, bzr shallow branches, and git

2009-03-02 Thread Steve Langasek
ically superior to git because git has rebasing as a first-class feature. :-) -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer

Re: Frozen unstable (was: please test the numpy package)

2009-02-05 Thread Steve Langasek
a case of a package with a lot of reverse-dependencies; so I don't disagree with the conclusion to avoid an upload to unstable for now.) -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubunt

Re: numpy 1.2.1, switching to git?

2008-12-24 Thread Steve Langasek
ceiling is much lower for svn than for DVCS. The real danger is that most people who know DVCSes aren't content to teach people how to use them like svn. ;) I agree with Scott that workflow documentation is really the single biggest factor in how approachable this will be

Re: numpy 1.2.1, switching to git?

2008-12-23 Thread Steve Langasek
. That's not what the word "intuitive" means. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developerhttp://www.debian.org/ s

Re: numpy 1.2.1, switching to git?

2008-12-21 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 12:08:18AM +0100, Ondrej Certik wrote: > On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 7:49 PM, Steve Langasek wrote: > >> as it is really ugly to use > > Ugly how? > Well, it's just slow once you get used to git and how fast it is, > it really sucks to w

Re: numpy 1.2.1, switching to git?

2008-12-20 Thread Steve Langasek
just my subjective opinion, please don't start a flame war now) It's a rather strongly worded opinion; if you want to avoid flame wars, you might find it helpful to bring specific criticisms to the table instead of just declaring a solution "ugly". :) Slinkin

Re: [pkg-boost-devel] Boost.Python: Build and Install with Python 2.4 and 2.5?

2008-02-27 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 10:04:26PM -0600, Steve M. Robbins wrote: > On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 09:17:24PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > > Decorate only the shared library names with the python versions, and retain > > the current names for the .a files and .so symlinks - with tw

Re: Boost.Python: Build and Install with Python 2.4 and 2.5?

2008-02-23 Thread Steve Langasek
t I think it solves all the other drawbacks of the other solutions you suggested. Cheers, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer

Re: how to get python-numpy to testing

2007-12-29 Thread Steve Langasek
s > I don't see why newer python-numpy makes it uninstallable. Because it depends on python-scipy, which is the depending package that has already been made uninstallable? > Any ideas how to fix b), so that python-numpy can go to testing? By dealing with python-scipy. -- Steve Lang

Re: python-numpy has problems on buildbots

2007-12-05 Thread Steve Langasek
ses a problem for your package then your package is missing either a build-dependency or a build-conflict (or is buggy in some other way). -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubunt

Re: Report on the situation of python2.5 in Debian

2007-10-12 Thread Steve Langasek
ilable that can be used to reproduce this list from Packages/Sources? I would very much prefer to be able to generate an authoritative list of per-arch binaries that need to be binNMUed, so that the progress can be tracked and so we're not needlessly binNMUing packages that have sourceful uploads

Re: ldbl128 transition for alpha, powerpc, sparc and s390?

2007-09-30 Thread Steve Langasek
ated to declarations of symbols exported by the library itself. python2.4-dev was such a false positive. If a bug was ever opened for it, it's been closed and archived long ago. You should proceed with the ldbl transition for your own package. -- Steve Langasek Give m

Re: maintainer field

2007-09-06 Thread Steve Langasek
> was pretty stupid to have DPMT as uploader, as it would make every > package NMU. No, what was said was that it was meaningless to list a mailing list in the Uploaders field because a mailing list can never do an upload and therefore it misses the /point/ of the Uploaders field. -- Stev

Re: Proposed update to the python policy

2007-03-28 Thread Steve Langasek
uot;current" > should be replaced? No objections. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ -- To UNSUBS

Re: Proposed update to the python policy

2007-03-24 Thread Steve Langasek
, then the package's > > current dependencies are wrong... > python2.4 is default now so there's no need to add extra dependencies Um, no. Your package is supposed to have a versioned dependency on python (>= 2.4), and it doesn't. -- Steve Langasek

Re: Proposed update to the python policy

2007-03-23 Thread Steve Langasek
t's built for python2.X explicitly, the package name needs to reflect that, which means manual changes are needed to update it for a new python version. That's out of scope for 'current'. > BTW: "current, >=2.4" helped me a lot with packaging gaupol when > pyt

Re: Proposed update to the python policy

2007-03-22 Thread Steve Langasek
be > > built for one version of python, the version that is currently the > > default version in Debian. > not necessary default (see "current, >=2.X" where 2.X is greater than default) > but for single version only, yes. I understand it this way, but >

Re: Proposed update to the python policy

2007-03-21 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 12:47:17AM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le mercredi 21 mars 2007 à 15:51 -0700, Steve Langasek a écrit : > > > If we don't, I don't see the purpose of the policy alltogether. > > Allowing transitions between default versions of python

Re: Proposed update to the python policy

2007-03-21 Thread Steve Langasek
ackage anyway". Right. > So that first quick look just says that what we need is a way to find > out about packages that: > * build private extensions (needed for question (2)); > * only build things for the default python version (opposed to those > who build for as many

Re: Proposed update to the python policy

2007-03-21 Thread Steve Langasek
pilation is needed in that case, even if pyversions -s > changes. As you allude later, ideally you would have binNMUs in response to the pyversions -s change, so that the package is updated for additions/deletions to the supported list. The binNMU is not *required*, true, but doing such binNM

Re: Proposed update to the python policy

2007-03-21 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 12:05:30AM +0100, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 03:51:20PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 11:16:14PM +0100, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > > > If we don't, I don't see the purpose of the policy alltogethe

Re: Proposed update to the python policy

2007-03-21 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 11:16:14PM +0100, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 02:44:29PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 08:22:32PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > > I think it's time to update the python policy with the progress t

Re: Proposed update to the python policy

2007-03-21 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 10:59:40PM +0100, Piotr Ożarowski wrote: > [Steve Langasek, 21.03.2007] > > So with current deprecated, what is the solution for a package which wants > > to build a single binary extension for the current python version in a > > package named python

Re: Proposed update to the python policy

2007-03-21 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 11:03:37PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le mercredi 21 mars 2007 à 14:51 -0700, Steve Langasek a écrit : > > On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 10:47:37PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > > If this is a public extension, this goes completely against the s

Re: Proposed update to the python policy

2007-03-21 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 10:47:37PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le mercredi 21 mars 2007 à 14:44 -0700, Steve Langasek a écrit : > > On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 08:22:32PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > > I think it's time to update the python policy with the progress t

Re: Proposed update to the python policy

2007-03-21 Thread Steve Langasek
des: meaningful in the case of inter-module > dependencies, as discussed at Debconf; Do the helpers implement this, or is this going to be a policy that packages can't actually comply with? -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer

Re: PYTHONPATH problem: how to deal with?

2007-02-24 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sat, Feb 24, 2007 at 06:17:35PM -0800, Suhas kurse wrote: > I am new to Python programming. > I want to set the PYTHONPATH in "Windows XP". How should I go about it > Appreciate your reply 1) Install Debian 2) ask an on-topic question about Python on Debian HTH,

Re: Transition from sarge-etch for zope packages

2007-02-21 Thread Steve Langasek
ge->etch though; OTOH, I also don't see why it's important to avoid removal of zope2.7 on upgrade, it /is/ an obsolete package from the etch perspective. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it o

Re: Bug#382252: Python PATH problem

2007-01-03 Thread Steve Langasek
7;t this only the case if the user was upgrading from an old version of the package that's no longer in the archive? If so, there's nothing RC about this because mercurial wasn't included in sarge. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS De

Re: Bug#380914: help with python transition in pyracerz game

2006-09-07 Thread Steve Langasek
d to figure out how to make an sgid games pyracerz binary. The first solution that suggests itself to me is a small sgid wrapper written in C that does nothing except change gid and execute the python program. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Develo

Re: debian/pycompat usage?

2006-09-05 Thread Steve Langasek
I hope people won't make again the mistake to define > policies in a meeting. I think the only lesson is to not invite you to such meetings, because you'll piss on any attempt at building consensus anyway. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free O

Re: Bug#385909: pyversions: command not found

2006-09-04 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Sep 04, 2006 at 08:41:55AM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Sun, 03 Sep 2006, Steve Langasek wrote: > > On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 at 11:38:19PM +0200, Julien Danjou wrote: > > > Suggested packages: > > > python-doc python-profiler > > > The foll

Re: Bug#385909: pyversions: command not found

2006-09-03 Thread Steve Langasek
ing doing bytecompiling, right?) need a dependency on python (>= 2.3.5-6)... -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http:/

Re: help with python transition in pyracerz game

2006-08-29 Thread Steve Langasek
icated > python dependence. > And if I just ${python:Depends} I receive msg that I need to put > python as Dependence. Out of interest (I know someone has already offered you a patch), could you post your package somewhere so that we can understand what went wrong? -- Steve Langasek

Re: debian/pycompat usage?

2006-08-27 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sat, Aug 26, 2006 at 11:18:15AM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le vendredi 25 août 2006 à 17:09 -0700, Steve Langasek a écrit : > > > As long as these fields don't even have clear semantics, implementing > > > them is, at best, useless. > > So, why has th

Re: debian/pycompat usage?

2006-08-25 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Aug 25, 2006 at 10:26:54PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le vendredi 25 août 2006 à 13:09 -0700, Steve Langasek a écrit : > > I object to basing future work exclusively on dh_pysupport as long as it > > implements your unilateral decision to abandon the XB-Python-Versio

Re: debian/pycompat usage?

2006-08-25 Thread Steve Langasek
pite the proof that 80% of > this "policy" thing is nothing but useless complication for package > maintainers). I object to basing future work exclusively on dh_pysupport as long as it implements your unilateral decision to abandon the XB-Python-Version field and deprecate the XS-Python-

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