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Re: Packaging python-egenix-mx*



Federico Di Gregorio writes:
> On Sun, 2001-10-28 at 22:34, Joel Rosdahl wrote:
> > 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?

I did look at python-mysqldb and python-reportlab. They can use
2.1. I didn't look at python-popy.

> > 2. Should I build Python 2.2 versions of these packages (i.e. will
> >    woody include Python 2.2(beta))?

well, woody is not yet frozen, and bug fixes (I read: the final
version) are allowed in a freeze. And woody won't release before
Christmas (the scheduled release date for python2.2).

> > 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.

Which tools are this? Basically the error should prevent something like
python (>=1.x), python (>> 1.y).

> > 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/ ./

looks ok. Would it make sense to add a 'Replaces:' line for those
packages without the '-egenix' part? I.E:

Package: python-egenix-mxdatetime
Replaces: python-mxdatetime


Could you copy these packages to ftp-master.debian.org in
~doko/www/python-uploads?

Thanks, Matthias



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