Re: Has Debian abandoned Python?
On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 21:53, Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> wrote:
> Sandro Tosi <morph@debian.org> writes:
>
>> So, three months are passed since the last email to the original thread
>> and 1 week from this last ping, and there are still no public
>> information about the "currently discussion ongoing about how to move
>> forward".
>
>> Nice, let's keep this hidden, so that only the secret cabal knows about
>> it, and the Debian community can be kept in the dark. Way to go.
>
> A bunch of work towards a Python 2.6 transition seems to be happening
> (says someone who doesn't use much Python but who fixed reported bugs with
> Python being built against 2.6 by default in a package upload a week ago).
yes, that's right: a huge amount of work was done by people from debian-python.
> Maybe the group of people doing that work should also be the people who
> decide when Python 2.6 will be uploaded, if the current maintainer isn't
> able or willing to coordinate the work for whatever reason?
Yes, that would be awesome in theory, still quite difficult (or seen
as rude) in reality.
Regards,
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Sandro Tosi (aka morph, morpheus, matrixhasu)
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