Bug#243291: Discussion about the python-policy-draft

[Andreas Barth <aba@not.so.argh.org>]

Package: debian-policy
Version: 3.6.1.0
Severity: wishlist

Hi,

there was more than one discussion about the Debian Python policy
draft, http://people.debian.org/~joss/python/python-policy-draft.txt

I try to summerize the different discussion we had about it:

- "makes transitions of new versions of python into testing a
  screaming nightmare" - see
  http://groups.google.de/groups?selm=1aXSL-6Dn-3%40gated-at.bofh.it
  for this statement of Colin Watson
  (The same is valid for backporting a single python application to
  stable.)

- the document recommends forward conflicts quite too often. Forward
  conflicts should be avoided. I can't e.g. see for myself why an
  simple application like imediff2 or moosic (or many others) needs to
  conflict with python >= 2.4.

I hope that I spotted out the most discussed issues, and I hope that
we are able together to solve these problems.




Cheers,
Andi
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