Re: Python upgrade, dependencies of python-numeric

2002-09-26 Thread Matthias Klose
Hugo van der Merwe writes: > > I was just about to post a big explanation...again, when I saw you had > > figured it out :-) > > > > Does anyone think the Python policy need a bit more explanation here? would > > some "use-cases" help? > > I think that would be a good idea, probably. To try to av

Re: Python upgrade, dependencies of python-numeric

2002-09-25 Thread Hugo van der Merwe
> I was just about to post a big explanation...again, when I saw you had > figured it out :-) > > Does anyone think the Python policy need a bit more explanation here? would > some "use-cases" help? I think that would be a good idea, probably. To try to avoid having too many people asking the sam

Re: Python upgrade, dependencies of python-numeric

2002-09-25 Thread Bastian Kleineidam
On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 09:40:16PM +1000, Donovan Baarda wrote: > Does anyone think the Python policy need a bit more explanation here? would > some "use-cases" help? Definitely. I am working on the 0.4 version of python-registrar (should be ready next week), which will enable some more possibiliti

Re: Python upgrade, dependencies of python-numeric

2002-09-25 Thread Donovan Baarda
On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 07:03:21PM +0200, Hugo van der Merwe wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 12:15:35PM +0200, Hugo van der Merwe wrote: > > > I see python-numeric and python-numeric-ext have versioned dependencies > > > on the python meta package. It doesn't look necessary to me, there are > >

Re: Python upgrade, dependencies of python-numeric

2002-09-24 Thread Hugo van der Merwe
> On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 12:15:35PM +0200, Hugo van der Merwe wrote: > > I see python-numeric and python-numeric-ext have versioned dependencies > > on the python meta package. It doesn't look necessary to me, there are > > python2.2-numeric and python2.1-numeric packages, these depend on the > >

Re: Python upgrade, dependencies of python-numeric

2002-09-24 Thread Bastian Kleineidam
Hugo, On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 12:15:35PM +0200, Hugo van der Merwe wrote: > I see python-numeric and python-numeric-ext have versioned dependencies > on the python meta package. It doesn't look necessary to me, there are > python2.2-numeric and python2.1-numeric packages, these depend on the > req

Python upgrade, dependencies of python-numeric

2002-09-24 Thread Hugo van der Merwe
ioned, one could upgrade python-numeric before doing a full python upgrade... (I still have a couple of packages holding my python on 2.1.) Hugo van der Merwe Sorry, I'm not on the list, please CC.

Re: python upgrade

2001-10-21 Thread Donovan Baarda
On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 07:25:04PM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: > hmm, seems I've been kicked of the debian lists. anyway, could you > implement the scripts for your c) proposal? would it be a good idea to > put the debian directories under CVS control, so we have access to it? And I thought perha

Re: Python upgrade path (draft/proposal)

2001-10-20 Thread Chris Lawrence
On Oct 18, Matthias Klose wrote: > > > May I suggest a simpler alternative for (b) (or maybe an alternative "c"): > > > > Make package python-XXX containing support for both python 1.5 and > > python 2.1. For each python {1.5,2.1} that is installed, bytecompile > > the package's .py files on ins

Re: Python upgrade path (draft/proposal)

2001-10-18 Thread Matthias Klose
> May I suggest a simpler alternative for (b) (or maybe an alternative "c"): > > Make package python-XXX containing support for both python 1.5 and > python 2.1. For each python {1.5,2.1} that is installed, bytecompile > the package's .py files on install. Since we use > /usr/lib/pythonx.y/site

Re: Python upgrade path (draft/proposal)

2001-10-18 Thread Donovan Baarda
Quoting Matthias Klose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > With the last python-1.5.2-18.2 NMU we have non-conflicting python1.5, > 2.0 and 2.1 packages in unstable, not more not less. > > Here two proposals, how to go further on. The first proposal is a > safer proposal (but needs more uploads and needs loon

Re: Python upgrade path (draft/proposal)

2001-10-17 Thread Anthony Towns
On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 11:06:37PM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: > 4) Packages not compatible with python2 need to be uploaded >to use the python1.5 packages/binary. NMU's should be allowed >to fix these ... Possibly, you should reupload them renamed to be "python1.5-foo", as well, so that

Re: Python upgrade path (draft/proposal)

2001-10-17 Thread Chris Lawrence
On Oct 17, Matthias Klose wrote: > With the last python-1.5.2-18.2 NMU we have non-conflicting python1.5, > 2.0 and 2.1 packages in unstable, not more not less. > > Here two proposals, how to go further on. The first proposal is a > safer proposal (but needs more uploads and needs loong). The seco

Python upgrade path (draft/proposal)

2001-10-17 Thread Matthias Klose
With the last python-1.5.2-18.2 NMU we have non-conflicting python1.5, 2.0 and 2.1 packages in unstable, not more not less. Here two proposals, how to go further on. The first proposal is a safer proposal (but needs more uploads and needs loong). The second proposal accepts some breakage during th

Re: Python upgrade: need help regarding package renaming

2001-08-03 Thread Jérôme Marant
Gregor Hoffleit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The Packages file at > http://people.debian.org/~flight/python/snapshot/Packages.gz > contains the first of several trials I made, but to no avail. > I also tried to make idle-python1.5 "Replace: idle", and/or to "Provide: > idle", but to no avail:

Python upgrade: need help regarding package renaming

2001-08-01 Thread Gregor Hoffleit
Hi, I'm struggling with a simple case of 'What-APT-Does-Is-Not-What-I-mean' while preparing the dependencies for the Python upgrade: In potato, we had packages python-base and idle (and a variety of other python-* packages). Now these packages will be renamed python1.5-base and