On Sun, 2001-10-28 at 22:34, Joel Rosdahl wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have now finished Debianizing eGenix mx BASE (based on patch done by
> Federico Di Gregorio, see bug#111156):
>
> http://www.lemburg.com/files/python/eGenix-mx-Extensions.html
>
> The upstream maintainer of "the mx packages" (mxdatetime, mxstack,
> mxtools, ...) now distributes everything in one source package, so I
> have used egenix-mx-base as source package name. It currently builds
> the following binary packages compiled for Python 2.1:
>
> python-egenix-mxbeebase
> python-egenix-mxdatetime (new version of python-mxdatetime)
> python-egenix-mxproxy
> python-egenix-mxqueue
> python-egenix-mxstack (new version of python-mxstack)
> python-egenix-mxtexttools (new version of python-mxtexttools)
> python-egenix-mxtools (new version of python-mxtools)
>
> and also
>
> python-egenix-mx-base-dev
note that the location of the header files was wrong in my patch
(/usr/include/pythonx.y/mx is much better, imho.)
>
> which includes headers for the C API to the libraries.
>
> Questions:
>
> 1. Does anyone need Python 1.5 versions of these packages?
>
> Packages I have found that are associated with some of the mx
> packages are:
>
> python-mysqldb (Suggests: python-mxdatetime)
> python-popy (Depends: python-mxdatetime)
> python-psycopg (Depends: python-mxdatetime)
i plan to drop support for 1.5 from psycopg (at least in debian builds)
when we'll have a zope for python 2.1 in the archive.
> python-reportlab (Suggests: python-mxtexttools)
>
> but I currently assume that no one of those will need Python 1.5.
> Is my assumption incorrect?
>
> 2. Should I build Python 2.2 versions of these packages (i.e. will
> woody include Python 2.2(beta))?
>
> 3. As the policy mandates, I have made the packages depend on
>
> python (>= 2.1), python (<< 2.2)
>
> Lintian doesn't really like that. :-) For example:
>
> E: python-egenix-mxdatetime: package-has-a-duplicate-relation python
> N:
> N: The package seems to declare a relation on another package more than
> N: once. This is not only sloppy but can break some tools
> N:
>
> Okay, this wasn't a question, just a note.
>
> 4. Any other comments?
>
> Oh, and if anyone wants to look at or test the packages, get them
> here:
>
> deb http://joel.rosdahl.net/debian/ ./
> deb-src http://joel.rosdahl.net/debian/ ./
thank you very much!
--
Federico Di Gregorio
Debian GNU/Linux Developer & Italian Press Contact fog@debian.org
INIT.D Developer fog@initd.org
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