Re: python-central vs python-support

2006-06-05 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Sun, 04 Jun 2006, Matthias Klose wrote: > > - python2.x-* packages -- are they needed? desirable? > >Steve and Matthias gave different answers, and if they're present > >migrations end up just as fragile as they are now. > > No, not different answers. They may be needed, if an extensio

Re: python-central vs python-support

2006-06-05 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Sun, 04 Jun 2006, Joe Wreschnig wrote: > policy is. So here's *my* attempt at summarizing the BoF, based on your > first mail and responses, and independent of the tools used: > > 1) Public modules and extensions should support all available Python > versions, using a single binary package. >

Fwd: RFS: python-musicbrainz2

2006-06-05 Thread Lukáš Lalinský
Hi, I initially sent this e-mail only to [EMAIL PROTECTED], but then I realized that it's more likely to find a sponsor for a Python module here. Original Message Subject: RFS: python-musicbrainz2 Resent-Date: Sun, 4 Jun 2006 08:15:12 -0500 (CDT) Resent-From: debian-mentors@lis

Re: python-central vs python-support

2006-06-05 Thread Duck
Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > No. An extension has to be separately *compiled* for each python version > it's to support. A python-foo package containing > /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/foo/foo.so and > /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/foo/foo.so must not claim to be compatible

Re: python-central vs python-support

2006-06-05 Thread Duck
Of course, i'd be glad to help concretly. I'm not a Python expert, but i could help on the CDBS front, and test solutions (like i did with Joss for python-support recently), and provide some valuable documentation (even if the CDBS documentation forked, i'm still updating the original version regu

Re: python-central vs python-support

2006-06-05 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Jun 05, 2006 at 02:23:45PM +0200, Marc Dequènes wrote: > So, that's my idea, willing to automatize all complicated build rules, > and remove the upper boundaries in dependencies, which would be rendered > useless by intelligent binNMUs. Er, I guess you do understand since you agreed with

Re: python-central vs python-support

2006-06-05 Thread Joe Wreschnig
On Mon, 2006-06-05 at 14:23 +0200, Marc Dequènes wrote: > Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > No. An extension has to be separately *compiled* for each python version > > it's to support. A python-foo package containing > > /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/foo/foo.so and > > /usr/li

Re: python-central vs python-support

2006-06-05 Thread Duck
Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > - An Arch: any python-foo extension package must depend on > python (>= $minver), python (<< $maxver+1), where $minver is the earliest > python ABI that it includes a compiled extension for and $maxver is the > latest python ABI that it includes a

Re: python-central vs python-support

2006-06-05 Thread Duck
Joe Wreschnig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > CDBS is not necessary; look at python-gst0.10's packaging. The versions > it's built for is controlled entirely via a single Make variable, and it > uses regular debhelper. This could be further refined to find all > installed versions of Python at build

Re: python-central vs python-support

2006-06-05 Thread Matthias Klose
> > s/available/supported/. we will try to keep the number of supported > > python versions/implementations minimal. > > Is there difference between available and supported versions ? What use > for an official python package if it is not supported ? assume we want to add a python2.5 package. It'

Re: python-central bug

2006-06-05 Thread Matthias Klose
Piotr Ozarowski writes: > I have just finished my first python-support based package[1] and I think I > have found a bug: after running post install command: > > # pycentral pkginstall python-enchant > > I'm getting this: > | /usr/bin/python2.3: can't open file '/usr/sbin/py_compilefiles' thank