On Wed, 2005-02-16 at 14:12 +0100, Pavel Jurus wrote: > Are concerned developers aware of current situation? Also maybe it would > be worth trying to ask upstream authors about license because current > python distribution is broken in that sense that lots of 3rd party > software expects standard python distribution with profile.py for > example and will not work on stock debian. Packages like ipython would > have to be moved to contrib section which I think is a shame. The Python developers are aware of the problem[0], but it seems they don't care enough to do anything[1]; from Tim Peters: > Still, if that matters, perhaps Debian will need to leave these > modules out. Bold <ahem> users will still be able to grab them from > any number of other places. [0] http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2005-February/051450.html [1] http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2005-February/051465.html -- Joe Wreschnig <piman@debian.org>
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