Re: Python policy proposed changes

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

Josselin Mouette writes:
> Apart from a typo and the FSF address, the changes are about which
> packaging variants are mandated, recommending to provide only one
> python-foo package for each module, except when depending applications
> mandate another python version.
> 
> This way, we could enforce that policy during the transition, removing
> hundreds of cruft python2.X-foo packages.

we should deprecate building python2.1-foo and python2.2-foo versions
of the packages, I don't like the idea that maintainers of depending
applications have to "fight" with maintainers of library packages,
which versions they should provide.

  Matthias