Re: Will rtupdate be used for python 2 --> python 3 transition?

2013-10-29 Thread Dmitrijs Ledkovs
On 29 October 2013 02:22, Steve M. Robbins wrote: > Hello, > > The Debian Python Policy documents [1] the rtupdate script for dealing with > default runtime changes. Is this documentation still valid? Will rtupdate be > used when the default runtime changes to python 3 or later? > python3.X ser

DD commit access to alioth python-{modules,apps} repositories

2013-10-29 Thread Tim Retout
Hi all, I went to svn-inject my first python-modules package, and discovered that the non-group-member DD commit access seems not to be working. This support issue seems to still be valid: https://alioth.debian.org/tracker/?group_id=1&atid=21&func=detail&aid=313209 These commands compare the

Re: Will rtupdate be used for python 2 --> python 3 transition?

2013-10-29 Thread Steve M. Robbins
Hi, On October 29, 2013 09:49:53 AM Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote: > python3.X series and python2.X series are two distinct languages > (incompatible API and ABI changes), and it has been decided to keep > both alive as independent implementations. > thus "/usr/bin/python" will always point to a python2

Re: Will rtupdate be used for python 2 --> python 3 transition?

2013-10-29 Thread Dmitry Shachnev
On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 5:22 AM, Steve M. Robbins wrote: > It is anticipated that there will eventually come a time where the third party > ecosystem surrounding Python 3 is sufficiently mature for this recommendation > to > be updated to suggest that the python symlink refer to python3 rather th