Re: RC severity for Python 2.6 related bugs

2010-03-02 Thread Pietro Battiston
Il giorno mar, 02/03/2010 alle 16.21 +0100, Sandro Tosi ha scritto: > On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 16:13, Yaroslav Halchenko > wrote: > > > > For the packages > > with low users count it becomes more important since it becomes unlikely > > that an important bug would get detected that rapidly So...

Re: RC severity for Python 2.6 related bugs

2010-03-02 Thread Sandro Tosi
On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 16:13, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: > > On Sun, 28 Feb 2010, Sandro Tosi wrote: >> I absolutely agree with this (even though, for those packages that >> byte-compile the files they install, it's a smaller problem) and I >> fear there are several situations where there are hidde

Re: RC severity for Python 2.6 related bugs

2010-03-02 Thread Yaroslav Halchenko
On Sun, 28 Feb 2010, Sandro Tosi wrote: > I absolutely agree with this (even though, for those packages that > byte-compile the files they install, it's a smaller problem) and I > fear there are several situations where there are hidden bugs only > discovered with (long) *usage* of a system with 2

Re: RC severity for Python 2.6 related bugs

2010-03-01 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le dimanche 28 février 2010 à 23:17 +0100, Vincent Bernat a écrit : > For whoever may be interested, I use this hook for pbuilder: > > ,[ /etc/pbuilder/hooks/A10python2.6 ] > | #!/bin/sh > | > | [ ! -f /usr/bin/python ] || { > | apt-get install -y --force-yes python2.6 > | ln -sf python2

Re: RC severity for Python 2.6 related bugs

2010-02-28 Thread Sandro Tosi
On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 23:17, Vincent Bernat wrote: > OoO En  ce début  d'après-midi ensoleillé du  dimanche 28  février 2010, > vers 15:29, je disais: > >> Well, I disagree. Python 2.6  is not the default. Packages are currently >> built with Python 2.5 and do not fail to build in a current pbui

Re: RC severity for Python 2.6 related bugs

2010-02-28 Thread Sandro Tosi
On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 23:11, Vincent Bernat wrote: > I also tend to  believe that there are a lot of  packages that will just > fail to run  with Python 2.6 but will have no  problem to build, because > for  most packages,  building  just means  to  copy files  in the  right > location. The late

Re: RC severity for Python 2.6 related bugs

2010-02-28 Thread Ben Finney
Vincent Bernat writes: > For whoever may be interested, I use this hook for pbuilder: Thanks, that saves me the trouble of writing and testing it :-) -- \ “Holy polar ice sheet, Batman!” —Robin | `\

Re: RC severity for Python 2.6 related bugs

2010-02-28 Thread Vincent Bernat
OoO En ce début d'après-midi ensoleillé du dimanche 28 février 2010, vers 15:29, je disais: > Well, I disagree. Python 2.6 is not the default. Packages are currently > built with Python 2.5 and do not fail to build in a current pbuilder. We > already had a bunch of bug reports about packa

Re: RC severity for Python 2.6 related bugs

2010-02-28 Thread Vincent Bernat
OoO Vers la fin de l'après-midi du dimanche 28 février 2010, vers 16:46, Josselin Mouette disait : >> It would be far easier to let Python 2.6 be the default, then file (or >> upgrade) serious bugs and solve them in a week or two. > Yeah sure, let’s knowingly break dozens of packages by swit

Re: RC severity for Python 2.6 related bugs

2010-02-28 Thread Andreas Barth
* Jonathan Wiltshire (deb...@jwiltshire.org.uk) [100228 17:19]: > On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 04:46:09PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > Le dimanche 28 février 2010 à 15:29 +0100, Vincent Bernat a écrit : > > > It would be far easier to let Python 2.6 be the default, then file (or > > > upgrade)

Re: RC severity for Python 2.6 related bugs

2010-02-28 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Jonathan Wiltshire (28/02/2010): > I think we need to do both before we end up running out of time. I > propose that we upgrade/file bugs as serious so that they get > maintainer attention where possible, and allow (let's say) 7 days to > react. What about providing with patches instead of only p

Re: RC severity for Python 2.6 related bugs

2010-02-28 Thread Jonathan Wiltshire
On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 04:46:09PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le dimanche 28 février 2010 à 15:29 +0100, Vincent Bernat a écrit : > > It would be far easier to let Python 2.6 be the default, then file (or > > upgrade) serious bugs and solve them in a week or two. > > Yeah sure, let’s kn

Re: RC severity for Python 2.6 related bugs

2010-02-28 Thread Andreas Barth
* Josselin Mouette (j...@debian.org) [100228 16:50]: > Le dimanche 28 février 2010 à 15:29 +0100, Vincent Bernat a écrit : > > It would be far easier to let Python 2.6 be the default, then file (or > > upgrade) serious bugs and solve them in a week or two. > > Yeah sure, let’s knowingly break

Re: RC severity for Python 2.6 related bugs

2010-02-28 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le dimanche 28 février 2010 à 15:29 +0100, Vincent Bernat a écrit : > It would be far easier to let Python 2.6 be the default, then file (or > upgrade) serious bugs and solve them in a week or two. Yeah sure, let’s knowingly break dozens of packages by switching instead of fixing them before

Re: RC severity for Python 2.6 related bugs

2010-02-28 Thread Sandro Tosi
On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 15:29, Vincent Bernat wrote: > OoO Pendant le  journal télévisé du samedi 27  février 2010, vers 20:19, > Luca Falavigna disait : > >> after some discussions on #debian-python, I'd like to propose >> increasing severity of Python 2.6 related bugs [1] to serious. > > Well,

Re: RC severity for Python 2.6 related bugs

2010-02-28 Thread Vincent Bernat
OoO Pendant le journal télévisé du samedi 27 février 2010, vers 20:19, Luca Falavigna disait : > after some discussions on #debian-python, I'd like to propose > increasing severity of Python 2.6 related bugs [1] to serious. Well, I disagree. Python 2.6 is not the default. Packages are current