Re: Debian Python policy & Upgrade Path (draft/proposal)

[Donovan Baarda <abo@minkirri.apana.org.au>]

Quoting Matthias Klose <doko@cs.tu-berlin.de>:

> Donovan Baarda writes:
> > Good point... I'd forgotten about that. This means we might as well go
> > strait to python2.1 as the default, but make sure that the
> python2.1-xxx
> > packages have versioned conflicts with all the packages that depend on
> just
> > python or python-base and install into /usr/lib/python1.5/. Perhaps
> the best
> > way to do this is have python-base (2.1xxx) have all the conflicts,
> allowing
> > the other packages to be relatively clean.
> 
> I've made python packages defaulting to 2.1 (not in incoming) and have
> put them on ftp-master.
> 
> 	deb http://ftp-master.debian.org/~doko/python ./

Looking good :-)

I haven't looked inside the packages yet, just at the Packages file, and it 
looks fine.

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