Experimental Python 1.5.2c1 packages available

[Gregor Hoffleit <flight@vogon.mathi.uni-heidelberg.de>]

I have put together a set of experimental Python 1.5.2c1 packages. To use 
them with apt, try the following line:

  deb http://master.debian.org/~flight/python ./

They are also available via plain http (this time, I included a proper 
index.html so that it should be possible to download them with recursive 
wget as well):

  http://master.debian.org/~flight/python/


New features:

  * Python 1.5.2 release candidate 1.

  * libpython1.5.so reworked. Please report any anomalities! If I don't 
    get any negative feedback, the next potato packages will use a shared 
    libpython for the first time in Debian history ;-)

  * break sketch 0.5.4. This is a problem with the new multi-threaded 
    Tkinter and sketch' Pax modules. Sketch' author will try to fix this, 
    in the meantime sketch will have to provide an alternative 
    python-tk-nothreads package.

Not yet:

  * The great package renaming.

  * jpython

  * python-doc 1.5.2. Is html enough, or should I also include 
    python-doc-ps and python-doc-pdf.



The next release of JPython will have a free license. Since there are 
some build dependencies on non-free software, JPython probably will go 
into contrib at first. Nevertheless, this will make it necessary to have 
a common python library package (python-lib ?).


Again, any
	Gregor