PyGTK and Python 2.6

[David D Lowe <daviddlowe.flimm@googlemail.com>]

Hello all.

I'm the author of Epidermis, a theme manager for GNOME. More details
at: http://epidermis.tuxfamily.org

Until now, I've only ever tested and released Epidermis for Ubuntu,
however, I'm interested making Epidermis support as many Linux
distributions as possible, and I thought Debian would be a good start.

Epidermis is programmed in Python 2.6. I was surprised to find that
Python 2.6 is not included in Debian unstable, but only in the
experimental repositories. Unfortunately, Epidermis still doesn't work
on Debian. It seems python-gtk2 and other essential packages for
Epidermis have not been upgraded to Python 2.6 in any of Debian's
repositories.

Am I missing something? Can I get "import gtk" to work under Python
2.6 on Debian? Should I try to port Epidermis back to Python 2.5 or
should I wait for Python 2.6 to be fully supported in Debian
experimental or unstable?

I'm not looking for a definitive answer, (unless there is one!), just
advice. Thank you.

David D Lowe