Re: Re: Challenges packaging Python for a Linux distro - at Python Language Summit

2021-05-17 Thread Brian May
Jeremy Stanley writes: > For software development work, I compile my own Python interpreters > and libraries, because I need to develop against a variety of > different versions of these, sometimes in chroots, to be able to > target other distros and releases thereof. I keep all these in my > hom

Re: Re: Challenges packaging Python for a Linux distro - at Python Language Summit

2021-05-17 Thread Jeremy Stanley
On 2021-05-17 07:10:39 +0100 (+0100), Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > (apologies i forgot to say, please do cc me [...] Done. > a dist-upgrade to debian / testing - a way to obtain the latest > variants of critical software - frequently resulted in massive > breakage. > > i quickly learned

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-