Re: Updated experimental packages

[Gregor Hoffleit <gregor@mediasupervision.de>]

* Neil Schemenauer <nas@debian.org> [010907 00:33]:
> I see now that the python2 packages made it into unstable.  This is a
> mistake IMHO.  The Perl guys tryed this and it didn't work.  Also, the
> name should have been python2.1 not python2.  What problem does naming
> the packages "python2" solve?  It seems like a big pain for everyone
> for no gain.

Note that the python2 packages are, at this time, legacy. They were
created at the time where Python 2.0 was incompatible with the GPL, and
it was a hack to provide Python 1.5.2, which was GPL compatible, as
well as 2.0, which was not. Cf. README.why-python2 for a more detailed
explanation.

    Gregor