Re: preparing for Python 3.4

2014-01-26 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 8:59 PM, Matthias Klose wrote: > The 3.4 release is planned for March 16, so it shouldn't be too much of a > surprise to make 3.4 the default for the next Debian release, and hopefully be > able to drop 3.3. \0/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-python-requ...@lists.de

Re: Trim out Ubuntu entries in d/changelog?

2013-12-08 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On Sun, Dec 8, 2013 at 4:49 AM, Thomas Goirand wrote: > On 12/08/2013 03:04 AM, Barry Warsaw wrote: >> I've been working with gtimelog's upstream maintainer Marius, and with the >> permission of the old gtimelog Debian maintainers, have added it to PAPT. >> Please note that gtimelog was removed fr

Re: Python 3 as default

2013-12-04 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 6:25 PM, Barry Warsaw wrote: > I try to keep an eye on what other distros are doing w.r.t. Python 3. Here > are Fedora's plans: > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Python_3_as_Default > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Bkabrda/Py2to3GuidelineChanges > > Some of th

Re: PEP 453 affects Debian packaging of Python packages

2013-09-20 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 2:14 PM, Piotr Ożarowski wrote: > [Thomas Goirand, 2013-09-20] >> Though my debpypi isn't good enough to be >> released, I heard Piotr wrote the same kind of tool. >> >> Shouldn't we go the same way, and encourage our users to use a kind of >> wrapper around pip, so that th

Re: PEP 453 affects Debian packaging of Python packages

2013-09-18 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 3:36 PM, Paul Tagliamonte wrote: > 4) Python modules from dpkg are borderline useless for developers. We > package modules so that apps can use them, not so that people can > develop with them. Are they 'borderline useless' because they are normally much older

Re: Inconsistency in source package naming for python modules

2013-07-10 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 8:58 AM, Thomas Goirand wrote: > On 07/08/2013 10:10 PM, Scott Kitterman wrote: >> There is no policy on this either way, so there's no "mistake". > > Well, the mistake is precisely to have no rule, IMO. Agreed. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-python-requ...@lists.de

Re: Python plans for Jessie?

2013-05-06 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 7:59 PM, Matthias Klose wrote: > Am 06.05.2013 19:45, schrieb Tshepang Lekhonkhobe: >> On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 5:34 PM, Barry Warsaw wrote: >>> * Python 3.4 beta 1 is currently scheduled for November 23, 2013. What >>> should >>> our

Re: Python plans for Jessie?

2013-05-06 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 5:34 PM, Barry Warsaw wrote: > * Python 3.4 beta 1 is currently scheduled for November 23, 2013. What should > our plans be related to 3.4? My current thinking is that we could support > 3.4 but not make it the default. Why not make 3.4 default and get rid of 3.3 as w

Re: Python 3 BoF at DebConf11

2011-08-10 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On Mon, 2011-08-08 at 23:50 +0200, Piotr Ożarowski wrote: > We discussed /usr/bin/python2 symlink issue shortly and we all agreed > that we don't want Debian to use it (should helpers change shebangs back > to /usr/bin/python? Should lintian warn about it?) although we might > want to ship it with

regarding Packaging module in 3.3

2011-06-14 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
Have you guys looked at the new module, Packaging, in Python 3.3? Will it solve all the problems that Debian Python packaging has, or is it still lacking? sidenote: the same tool will be available for earlier Python versions as distutils2 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-python-requ...@lists.

Re: list of package for python_support -> dh_python2 ?

2011-06-14 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On Tue, 2011-06-14 at 10:09 +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Overall, as you might have noticed, I have vastly reduced my involvement > in the Debian Python community. The reason is that all the crap that > happened in Debian is still a result of broken designs in Python itself. > I think there is

Re: list of package for python_support -> dh_python2 ?

2011-06-12 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On Sat, 2011-06-11 at 20:11 -0400, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: > On Fri, 10 Jun 2011, Barry Warsaw wrote: > > >Do what you (plural) want, I don't care. > > Personally, I want one helper. The consistency will make life much easier > > for > > new packagers, for documentation, and for helping focus t

Re: list of package for python_support -> dh_python2 ?

2011-06-11 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On Sat, 2011-06-11 at 07:51 +, Sandro Tosi wrote: > On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 23:34, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe > wrote: > > On Fri, 2011-06-10 at 20:06 +, Sandro Tosi wrote: > >> On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 20:05, Piotr Ożarowski wrote: > >> > [Barry Warsaw, 2011-0

Re: list of package for python_support -> dh_python2 ?

2011-06-10 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On Fri, 2011-06-10 at 20:06 +, Sandro Tosi wrote: > On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 20:05, Piotr Ożarowski wrote: > > [Barry Warsaw, 2011-06-09] > >> What is the process for deprecating python-support? Who makes that > >> decision? > > > > I'd ask Joss, Sandro and Jakub what they think first (if the

Re: list of package for python_support -> dh_python2 ?

2011-06-10 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On Fri, 2011-06-10 at 12:16 +1000, Ben Finney wrote: > Paul Wise writes: > > > On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 1:40 AM, Barry Warsaw wrote: > > > > > What is the process for deprecating python-support? Who makes that > > > decision? > > > > Add a lintian warning saying that it is deprecated. > > Lintia

Re: list of package for python_support -> dh_python2 ?

2011-06-09 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 12:42, Ben Finney wrote: > Tshepang Lekhonkhobe writes: >> On Tue, 2011-06-07 at 23:39 +0200, Piotr Ożarowski wrote: >> > but pysupport is not deprecated so you cannot file bugs and ask >> > people to convert now >> >> Why the dela

Re: list of package for python_support -> dh_python2 ?

2011-06-09 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On Tue, 2011-06-07 at 23:39 +0200, Piotr Ożarowski wrote: > [Barry Warsaw, 2011-06-07] > > There is also a wiki page about how to convert from pysupport to dhpy2: > > > > http://wiki.debian.org/Python/PythonSupportToDHPython2 > > > > but there's no similar list of packages that could/should b

Re: dh_python2 transition

2011-05-03 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 11:13, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > On 05/03/2011 10:36 AM, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: >> On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 09:49, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: >>> On 05/02/2011 04:45 PM, Arto Jantunen wrote: >>>> How about concentrating on getting rid of dh_pyth

Re: dh_python2 transition

2011-05-03 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 09:49, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > On 05/02/2011 04:45 PM, Arto Jantunen wrote: >> How about concentrating on getting rid of dh_python and python-central >> for wheezy? My understanding is that consensus about those two being >> deprecated and needing to be removed should be achi

Re: I want to help

2010-10-29 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 15:55, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: > Hello. > I have a lot of packaging experience for ALT Linux and some experience > with Python programming, but no experience with Debian Python packaging (I > have some understanding of general Debian packaging). I want to help with > Pyth

Re: Wheezy plans

2010-10-18 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 21:19, Scott Kitterman wrote: > On Friday, October 15, 2010 05:45:24 pm Piotr Ożarowski wrote: >> FYI: [I already mentioned that on #debian-python and in other places, >> but it deserves a mail to debian-python as well] >> >> I think that we should support Python 2.7 and Py

will 2.6 be default?

2009-08-26 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
Hi, I saw recently that RT did not list 2.6 as default Python as a release goal. I also saw a thread talking about the problems related to 2.6. Does this mean Squeeze won't use it by default or are u guys working on it? It always seems a great challenge everytime there's a switch of defaults. Is

Re: Fwd: python docs in contrib?

2007-12-16 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On Dec 16, 2007 6:16 PM, Pierre Habouzit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, Dec 16, 2007 at 03:19:17PM +0000, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > > to the right list: > > > > > > -- Forwarded message -- > > From: Tshepang Lekhonkhobe <[EMA

Fwd: python docs in contrib?

2007-12-16 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
to the right list: -- Forwarded message -- From: Tshepang Lekhonkhobe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Dec 16, 2007 2:52 PM Subject: python docs in contrib? To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi, I was surprised to find python2.{4,5}-doc in contrib and wondered why? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

Re: python-imaging 1.1.6

2007-05-10 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On 5/10/07, Gaetano Guerriero <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Greetings. I was sondering why python-imaging is frozen to version 1.1.5 even in sid. Version 1.1.6 came out six months ago, and Ubuntu Feisty has package for it (same mantainer of debian) since december... Maybe the maintainer hasn't fou

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

2007-01-15 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On 1/15/07, Lars Wirzenius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 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 no

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

2007-01-15 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
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, write > nice loops in debian/rules to build for all versions specified by > `

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

2007-01-02 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On 1/2/07, Loïc Minier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, On Tue, Jan 02, 2007, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > I tried to do some development using Etch's python2.5, but it fails to > import pygtk and gtk modules and this is a regression IIRC. v2.4 works > fine. &qu

python2.5 fails to import pygtk and gtk modules

2007-01-02 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
Hi, I tried to do some development using Etch's python2.5, but it fails to import pygtk and gtk modules and this is a regression IIRC. v2.4 works fine. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: where is pyserial?

2006-11-23 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On 11/23/06, Carlos Galisteo de Cabo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Do you refer to python-serial? thanks... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

where is pyserial?

2006-11-22 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
Hi, A few months ago, I saw tht pyserial was available in Etch. Now apt-cache search returns nothing and I can't even import it in interactive session. What happened to it? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: which packages still depend on python2.3?

2006-10-21 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On 10/21/06, Pierre Habouzit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sat, Oct 21, 2006 at 12:13:42PM +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > Hi, > I managed to remove python2.3 without problems on my system, meaning > that everyone uses python2.4. Are there packages which depend only on >

Re: which packages still depend on python2.3?

2006-10-21 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On 10/21/06, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 10/21/06, Pierre Habouzit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Oct 21, 2006 at 12:13:42PM +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > > Hi, > > I managed to remove python2.3 without problems on my system, mea

Re: which packages still depend on python2.3?

2006-10-21 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On 10/21/06, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 10/21/06, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 10/21/06 05:13, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > > Hi, > > I managed to remove python2.3 wi

Re: which packages still depend on python2.3?

2006-10-21 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On 10/21/06, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Unless you haven't updated in a while, the only one (of the three) > strictly requiring python2.3 is bittorrent. That's according to the > packages.debian.org pages. Actually, the opposite. bittorrent "Depends: *python* (>= 2.3)". I had upd

Re: which packages still depend on python2.3?

2006-10-21 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On 10/21/06, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/21/06 05:13, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > Hi, > I managed to remove python2.3 without problems on my system, meaning > that everyone uses python2.4. Are there packages which

which packages still depend on python2.3?

2006-10-21 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
Hi, I managed to remove python2.3 without problems on my system, meaning that everyone uses python2.4. Are there packages which depend only on python2.3, and if not, why is it still kept around? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAI

where is the Python tutorial?

2006-10-15 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
Hi, I looked in the packages list and couldn't find the tutorial and was wondering if it was removed from the archive. Was it? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]