Re: python-wheel backport to Wheezy

2014-07-13 Thread Scott Kitterman
On July 14, 2014 1:35:51 AM EDT, Thomas Goirand wrote: >On 07/13/2014 07:08 PM, Scott Kitterman wrote: >> On July 13, 2014 6:00:58 AM EDT, Thomas Goirand >wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> There's more and more packages in Sid which requires python-wheel. I >>> was >>> wondering if it was possible to do a b

Re: python-wheel backport to Wheezy

2014-07-13 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 07/13/2014 07:08 PM, Scott Kitterman wrote: > On July 13, 2014 6:00:58 AM EDT, Thomas Goirand wrote: >> Hi, >> >> There's more and more packages in Sid which requires python-wheel. I >> was >> wondering if it was possible to do a backport of it. It seems very >> likely, because the setup.py is

Re: python-wheel backport to Wheezy

2014-07-13 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Jul 13, 2014, at 07:08 AM, Scott Kitterman wrote: >What packages are there that need it? That's my question too. There isn't much even in jessie that should *require* .whl files, and we've clearly outlined the acceptable use cases in Python Policy. They are tightly constrained to those that

Re: python-wheel backport to Wheezy

2014-07-13 Thread Scott Kitterman
On July 13, 2014 6:00:58 AM EDT, Thomas Goirand wrote: >Hi, > >There's more and more packages in Sid which requires python-wheel. I >was >wondering if it was possible to do a backport of it. It seems very >likely, because the setup.py is handling old stuff like Python prior >2.7. Many backports wh