Re: freezing python packages until python-2.3 becomes the default in testing

[Matthias Klose <doko@cs.tu-berlin.de>]

Ron writes:
> Howdy,
> 
> Forgive my apparent ignorance here, but I'm a little confused if I read
> Matthias' message correctly.  I don't understand how uploading a new
> libwxgtk2.4-python package (which build-deps on python2.3) might hold
> up python from entering testing.  Python doesn't depend on the wx
> package (or presumably any of the wx deps either), so how does wx being
> too new for testing hold up Python from entering it?
> 
> I ask because there is a new wx release which fixes some outstanding
> issues and there are a bunch of apps waiting for wx to hit testing,
> so the sooner I get this in, the sooner they all go too.
> 
> OTOH if doing this will skrew the python transition, I'm happy to wait
> and let them all enter together with the older version first, but I just
> don't see which nuance of testing makes this a problem.
> 
> If someone can shed some more light on this for me I'd be grateful.
> (and less likely to mess things up for you guys in the future :)

libwxgtk2.4-python 2.4.1.2 does directly depend on:

	Depends: python (>= 2.3), python (<< 2.4)

so it should be frozen until python migrates to testing.

	Matthias