Re: Second report: latest python in unstable broke my packages

2001-10-17 Thread Jérôme Marant
Donovan Baarda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I didn't think the new packages were using alternatives? This is the first thing I checked: chinon:~$ ls -al /usr/bin/python lrwxr-xr-x1 root root 24 oct 16 12:14 /usr/bin/python -> /etc/alternatives/python > > > > I discovered

Re: Second report: latest python in unstable broke my packages

2001-10-16 Thread Donovan Baarda
Quoting Bruce Sass <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi, > > On 16 Oct 2001, Jérôme Marant wrote: > <...> > > I installed both python1.5 and python2.1. And installing both on the > same > > system broke _all_ my python 1.5 packages: this is the alternative > issue > > Perl people have warned us about.

Re: Second report: latest python in unstable broke my packages

2001-10-16 Thread Matthias Klose
Bastian Kleineidam writes: > Jérôme Marant wrote: > > > I said previously that the upgrade when OK. This is true, but I hadn't > > look > > further at that moment. > > > My upgrade had some errors: No errors. The postinst just compiled the testsuite. Btw, do we really need the testsuite as

Re: Second report: latest python in unstable broke my packages

2001-10-16 Thread Bruce Sass
Hi, On 16 Oct 2001, Jérôme Marant wrote: <...> > I installed both python1.5 and python2.1. And installing both on the same > system broke _all_ my python 1.5 packages: this is the alternative issue > Perl people have warned us about. > > I discovered that /usr/bin/python is pointing to pyt

Re: Second report: latest python in unstable broke my packages

2001-10-16 Thread Bastian Kleineidam
Jérôme Marant wrote: I said previously that the upgrade when OK. This is true, but I hadn't look further at that moment. My upgrade had some errors: File "/usr/lib/python2.1/test/nocaret.py", line 2 [x for x in x] = x SyntaxError: can't assign to list comprehension SyntaxError: from __futu