Re: Please wait before bloating Debian with python2- packages
jerome.marant@free.fr (Jérôme Marant) writes:
> Were did you read about this ?
Someone mentioned it on this mailing list about a week ago, as I
recall.
> So if there are no more GPL problems, and if there are no need to
> have 2 pythons at a time, we can add a Provides: python (=2.0) to
> python 2 and recompile all our modules for python 2 right ?
Yes, if it turns out that Python 2.0 is GPL compatible, this will be
possible. (Of course it is remotely possible that some add-ons won't
work with 2.0, but I don't think that's likely to be a problem.)
> Well, I think we need some mecanism allowing us to keep modules on the
> system, even if we change the interpreter.
Perhaps, but it might not help much with this transition. One way or
another, packages that depend on Python will have to be updated this
time. (And really, it shouldn't take much more than changing a few
directory references and a recompile -- if a package needs more work
than that to build it for 2.0, it probably would have needed that work
anyway.)
--Rob
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Rob Tillotson N9MTB <robt@debian.org>
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