Re: RFC: Adding discussion about required versions to Python policy

2012-03-19 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Monday, March 19, 2012 05:29:25 PM Jakub Wilk wrote: > * Scott Kitterman , 2012-03-19, 09:29: > >>>"The generated minumum dependency may be different than the lowest > >>>version currently supported. In such cases, X-Python-Version must > >>>still be specified if the generated dependency is not

Re: RFC: Adding discussion about required versions to Python policy

2012-03-19 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Scott Kitterman , 2012-03-19, 09:29: "The generated minumum dependency may be different than the lowest version currently supported. In such cases, X-Python-Version must still be specified if the generated dependency is not sufficient." [...] I think something like my first paragraph needs to

Re: RFC: Adding discussion about required versions to Python policy

2012-03-19 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Monday, March 19, 2012 12:20:18 PM Jakub Wilk wrote: > * Scott Kitterman , 2012-03-17, 14:29: > >Upon reflection, this could be better stated something like this: > > > >"The generated minumum dependency may be different than the lowest > >version currently supported. In such cases, X-Python-Ver

Re: RFC: Adding discussion about required versions to Python policy

2012-03-19 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Scott Kitterman , 2012-03-17, 14:29: Upon reflection, this could be better stated something like this: "The generated minumum dependency may be different than the lowest version currently supported. In such cases, X-Python-Version must still be specified if the generated dependency is not su

Re: RFC: Adding discussion about required versions to Python policy

2012-03-17 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Saturday, March 17, 2012 07:18:59 PM Jakub Wilk wrote: > >The most common exception to this is architecture independent Python 3 > >modules with no version specific code. Since, unlike in Python, > >version specific directories are not needed for Python 3, there is no > >need to constrain th

Re: RFC: Adding discussion about required versions to Python policy

2012-03-17 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Scott Kitterman , 2012-03-17, 00:03: If the package supports all versions of Python/Python3 either supported in or planned for the development release, as well as the stable release, then `X-Python-Version' or `X-Python3-Version' may generally be omitted from `debian/control'. ACK The most

RFC: Adding discussion about required versions to Python policy

2012-03-16 Thread Scott Kitterman
I've worked on a couple of dh_python3 bugs in the last few days and as a result, gotten my hands dirty on the Python 3 dependency generation code. This caused me to consider the question of specifying which Python 3 versions are supported by a package a little more closely. I have generally con