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

python-wheel backport to Wheezy

2014-07-13 Thread Thomas Goirand
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 which used to be trivial aren't anymore because of this. Current