Zope 2.12 now requires Python 2.6

Hi, while I was trying to play with the upcoming Plone 4.0, which is technically vastly different from earlier releases, I found out that recent versions, or at least trunk, of Zope 2.12, appears to absolutely require Python 2.6. Or at least that's the way Andreas Jung, the Zope2 release manager,

backporting Python 2.6

Hi, while trying to backport Python 2.6 to Lenny, I discovered that it conflicts with python-xml, which is required by several other packages in conjunction with earlier versions of Python. I don't understand why this module has to conflict, though, but rather see this conflict as an artifact of

Bug#557288: libkml: manipulates site-packages/ directly, failing with Python 2.6

Package: libkml Version: 1.0.1-3 Severity: important User: debian-python@lists.debian.org Usertags: python2.6 ftbfs Package fails to build from source with python2.6, here's the build log tail: | # removes build-time rpaths | for version in python2.5 python2.4; \ | do \ | chrp

Bug#557293: polybori: FTBFS without Python 2.4

Package: polybori Version: 0.5~rc1-2 Severity: important User: debian-python@lists.debian.org Usertags: python2.6 ftbfs polybori hardcodes Python version it uses at build time in python-polybori.install, despite have a build-depends on python-all-dev. This means that polybori will fail to build on