Re: Python 2.7 in, Python 2.5 out, dh_python2
Il giorno lun, 07/02/2011 alle 20.54 +0100, Jan Dittberner ha scritto:
> On Mon, Feb 07, 2011 at 10:27:06AM +0100, Piotr Ożarowski wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > We plan to upload new python-defaults to unstable really soon now
> > (once python2.7 will be available for all architectures in unstable).
> >
> > Instead of Python 2.5, it will list Python 2.7 as supported
> > (default=2.6; supported=2.6,2.7).
> >
> > Once Python 2.7 will be well supported¹ in the archive, Python 2.6 will
> > be dropped as well so that Wheezy will support only one Python 2.X version
> > (the last one ever released upstream).
>
> +1
>
> > No, that's not meant to make security team's life easier, it's a tricky
> > way to force the usage of my dh_python2 helper and get rid of
> > python-{central,support} ;-)
>
> great plan :-)
>
This is probably a stupid question, but if nobody (as I seem to
understand) objects to dh_python2 becoming the only helper in Wheezy
(i.e. nobody protested very loudly - at least in this list - in response
to [1]), why doesn't it at least become the default instead of having to
specify its usage in debian/rules?
Pietro
[1]: http://lists.debian.org/debian-python/2011/01/msg00051.html
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