Re: Please install /usr/bin/python2

2013-09-16 Thread anatoly techtonik
On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 4:05 AM, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 09:53:41PM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: >> Lachlan writes: > >> > i'm not an expert by any means but i fail to see how this is an issue? > >> In short: Debian is not the only Unix-like system where Python is >> installed

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Re: How to help with sphinx 1.2?

2013-09-16 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Dmitry Shachnev , 2013-09-14, 13:56: So that is the showstopper? I thought I've seen other Debian packages based on development releases, so I thought maybe b1 would have a chance of making it out of experimental... Yes, I don't like the idea of having beta releases in unstable. I don't lik

Re: Please install /usr/bin/python2

2013-09-16 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Sep 15, 2013, at 01:24 PM, anatoly techtonik wrote: >I mean that generally it is hard to say what problems people face when >trying to make the code running on both Python 3 and Python 2. My own >experience shows that testing both is very burdensome no matter if you >port app or start from scra

[PATCH] Support :any architecture qualifiers for multiarch

2013-09-16 Thread Colin Watson
(CCing debian-python in case anyone is wondering what those spurious entries for Python packages in update_excuses.html are about.) Multiarch adds a Depends: foo:any syntax, permitted only if the target of the dependency is "Multi-Arch: allowed" [1]. This has been supported by dpkg and apt for so

Re: Please install /usr/bin/python2

2013-09-16 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Sep 15, 2013, at 06:05 PM, Steve Langasek wrote: >And *once that happens*, we can discuss resurrecting /usr/bin/python and >pointing it to python3. It should not change until then. Python 2.7 will have an upstream lifetime of many years even from now. The current thinking (I wouldn't even ca

Re: Please install /usr/bin/python2

2013-09-16 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Sep 16, 2013, at 10:16 AM, anatoly techtonik wrote: >As a Python developer I couldn't care less for the "default Python" >stuff as long as my scripts use proper shebang. python for 2/3 >compatible stuff, python2 for 2.x only and python3 where needed. If you're distributing software intended to

Re: Please install /usr/bin/python2

2013-09-16 Thread Kerrick Staley
On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 11:34 AM, Scott Kitterman wrote: > OK. I think that convinces me it's widely enough spread we ought to fix this > for Wheezy. I'll take it up with the release managers as it's their > decision, not mine. Bug filed: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=723182