what is python-central? [was: Re: Make python2.2 the python default]

2002-08-23 Thread Graham Wilson
On Fri, Aug 23, 2002 at 11:33:10PM +1000, Donovan Baarda wrote: > BTW, what is happening with python-central... is it becoming standard? > If so, the pythonX.X packages will need to use it. what is python-central? -- gram

Re: python-central comments

2002-08-25 Thread Graham Wilson
On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 10:43:12AM +1000, Donovan Baarda wrote: > In the end, I suspect it would be just as easy or easier to > re-structure mailman to put it's modules in > /usr/lib/python/site-packages. then normal python programs would be able to import the mailman module. wouldnt that be a bad

Re: dependencies of non-module packages

2002-09-07 Thread Graham Wilson
On Sun, Sep 01, 2002 at 09:08:36AM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > Until dpkg supports triggers, I think what the emacsen does it the > most sane -- I'd be really, really happy if python modules/apps were what do the emacsen do? -- gram

Fwd: python-biggles bug

2002-09-23 Thread Graham Wilson
On Mon, Sep 23, 2002 at 02:48:46PM +1000, Peter Hawkins wrote: > Hi... > > > On Mon, 23 Sep 2002 02:31 pm, you wrote: > > the python-biggles source package should produce a python-biggles > > binary package that depends on python2.2-biggles. this would be in > > addition to python2.[12]-biggles.

Re: Fwd: python-biggles bug

2002-09-25 Thread Graham Wilson
On Mon, Sep 23, 2002 at 10:47:11PM +0200, Martin Sj?gren wrote: > m??n 2002-09-23 klockan 22.34 skrev Graham Wilson: > > > Not in my reading of python policy. As far as I can see the creation > > > of a python-module package is optional. Then again the python policy >

Re: python-central 0.4

2002-10-04 Thread Graham Wilson
On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 02:05:32AM +1000, Donovan Baarda wrote: > The reason I said site-packages is the _right_ way, is it makes mailman > modules usable from other applications. However, I agree that we shouldn't > _require_ application specific modules to be in site-packages, particularly > when

Re: Bug#178373: debconf: severity critical

2003-01-31 Thread Graham Wilson
On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 02:46:00PM +1100, Donovan Baarda wrote: > On Fri, 2003-01-31 at 09:59, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > Le jeu 30/01/2003 ? 22:42, Bernhard Kuemel a ?crit : > [...] > > > ImportError: /usr/local/lib/python2.2/lib-dynload/math.so: undefined > >^

Re: python transition summary

2003-10-18 Thread Graham Wilson
On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 03:37:24PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Based on the lists I posted earlier during the transition and on doko's > lists of packages holding the move to testing, here is a summary of > python-related packages which still have issues regarding the python > policy. I have d

Re: plywood package upload?

2003-10-30 Thread Graham Wilson
On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 05:46:12PM -0600, Monty Taylor wrote: > I've been told that I should ask here for help with sponsoring of debian > packages that are in python. I thought the policy was never to ask on package specific lists for help with sponsoring; I could be mistaken though. > If there'

Re: plywood package upload?

2003-10-30 Thread Graham Wilson
On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 09:17:46PM -0600, Monty Taylor wrote: > On Thursday, Oct 30, 2003, at 20:59 US/Central, Graham Wilson wrote: > >You really don't need a new upload just to close an NMU bug. You can > >probably wait until you have some other bugs fixed (or new features)

Re: Correct location of .py and .pyc files

2003-11-12 Thread Graham Wilson
On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 02:32:30PM -0500, Marco Paganini wrote: > Another question: My application has some "skeleton" files that are copied > to the user's home directory by an installation program. Robert Millan (my > Debian guru, in the Cc:) has recommended /usr/share/doc/package/something, > bu

Re: Executable files part of library

2004-10-21 Thread Graham Wilson
On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 11:46:01PM +0200, Magnus Therning wrote: > W: python-pyggy: script-not-executable > ./usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/pyggy/util.py > > How should this be resolved? Manually putting the executable bits on the > files before packing? Removing '#!.*' in the mentioned files?

Re: Question about python policy

2004-02-10 Thread Graham Wilson
On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 08:18:34PM +0200, Fabian Fagerholm wrote: > Secondly, the above scheme makes it impossible to install both > packages at the same time. This is because both packages provide the > same initscript, defaults file and logrotate file. [...] Another > solution would be to split a

Re: Question about python policy

2004-02-10 Thread Graham Wilson
On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 08:54:43PM +0200, Fabian Fagerholm wrote: > On Tue, 2004-02-10 at 20:44, Graham Wilson wrote: > > This is the solution I use with the PyX package is to create a > > python-pyx-common package that both of the versioned packages depend on. > > This work

Re: pylibpcap Debian package

2004-06-04 Thread Graham Wilson
On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 08:55:27PM +0200, Alberto Rodriguez Galdo wrote: > Is there anyone working on this subject?, If not I would like to contribute > packaging and maintaining the pylibpcap package for Debian. Have you contacted the author of the ITP [1]? That would be my first step. [1] [EMA

Re: python-devel

2005-08-15 Thread Graham Wilson
On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 10:23:33PM +0200, radek wrote: > Searching either for binaries or deb package for python-devel. anyone > could help ?? apt-cache search python devel (You're probably looking for the python-dev package.) -- gram -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subj

Re: Status of recent and upcoming changes

2006-06-11 Thread Graham Wilson
On Sun, Jun 11, 2006 at 05:50:06PM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: > - Some infrastructure was implemented to remove all hardcoded >information about versions in the packaging scripts, so that >sourceless package rebuilds (binary NMUs) are enough to update >a package for new/removed/defau

Re: Coordinated effort to update python packages

2006-06-13 Thread Graham Wilson
On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 09:55:08PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > OK, then indicate "current" in XS-Python-Version and support only the > current version in python-xpcom (make sure to generate the provides > field). Speaking of this, I have a module (python-pyx) that I think is only used by end-u

Re: Coordinated effort to update python packages

2006-06-13 Thread Graham Wilson
On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 11:22:27PM +0200, Piotr Ozarowski wrote: > Graham Wilson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Speaking of this, I have a module (python-pyx) that I think is only used > > by end-users (not applications), so I think it makes sense to only > > install modules a

Re: Coordinated effort to update python packages

2006-06-14 Thread Graham Wilson
On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 11:43:21PM +0200, Piotr Ozarowski wrote: > Graham Wilson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > That would happen anyway for new Python releases, plus, my understanding > > is that with the new Python framework in place, supporting new Python > > versions can be

Re: Coordinated effort to update python packages

2006-06-14 Thread Graham Wilson
On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 11:45:32PM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: > that is correct. OTOH, each new upload to unstable may add a new > dependency on a newly uploaded library having a more strict dependency > or a new soname. If you build for the version we transition from, and > for the version we tr

Re: Coordinated effort to update python packages

2006-06-14 Thread Graham Wilson
On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 11:06:53PM +0200, Piotr Ozarowski wrote: > He can simply change /usr/bin/python symlink (that's very bad, but > it's possible) To be honest, I don't think it's worth supporting that, since the user is basically breaking his Python install. > or if he will need some feature

Re: Coordinated effort to update python packages

2006-06-14 Thread Graham Wilson
On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 06:43:32PM -0600, Jed Frechette wrote: > This is exactly the situation I am in now. I want to use PyX for > plotting but I need some of the features in Python 2.4. Well I > probably don't need them, I am sure I could find work arounds, but why > should I write code that is m

Re: Bug#373387: python transition

2006-06-16 Thread Graham Wilson
On Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 11:24:28AM -0500, Joe Wreschnig wrote: > Supporting just one version, the current one, is fine. However, you do > need to migrate the package to use pycentral, since dh_python alone will > no longer manage the byte (re)compilation of the .py modules. Speaking of which, does