Le mar 15/06/2004 à 09:49, Fabio Tranchitella a écrit : > Hi! I'm not (yet) an official dd, but I started my applicant process > some weeks ago so I hope I'll be a DD soon. I'm interested in adopting > python-gd (my package is available on http://www.kobold.it/python-gd). > Actually there is only a whishlist bug for this package (#223580) which > ask for a versioned packaging for the module. Actually it is available > only for python2.3, but there are no problems to compile and package it > for other version (python2.1 and python2.2) so I did. > > I also did a statistical report for the python modules availables in > stable, testing, unstable and experimental, I attached it to this > e-mail. > > My conclusion is that there are a lot of modules which are not versioned > and are available only for particular versions of python without > motivation. IMHO, can be very useful if every maintaner have to package > versioned python modules. I know people who use python2.1 or python2.2 > and I think Debian should think also about them. I think this would be wrong. This would clutter the archive with loads of cruft. For modules that are not widely used, almost no one will want a package for an older python version, thus only the default current version should be supported. This makes the python transitions easier, too. -- .''`. Josselin Mouette /\./\ : :' : josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org `. `' joss@debian.org `- Debian GNU/Linux -- The power of freedom
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