Le lundi 10 octobre 2005 à 17:14 +0100, Donovan Baarda a écrit : > The best person to decide what packages need to support which old > versions of python are the package maintainers. They know this based on > the requests and bug reports from the people that need them. It is up to > them to balence the hassle of packaging them against the hassle of > dealing with complaints. You are right, that's up to the maintainer. > By recommending "2.2.1 Support Only The Default Version", we are > recommending no legacy support. It would be interesting to see just how > many packages end up providing legacy support anyway after a period of > time. I have a feeling Zope and Mailman dependencies will end up > defining the extent of legacy support. I'm afraid not many maintainers would switch from their current way of doing things without strong incitation. That's why I think we should at least mention that you shouldn't support non-default python versions unless there's a good reason (whatever it is) to do so. And we should enforce that for those gazillions of small python modules with few or none reverse dependencies during the transition. -- .''`. Josselin Mouette /\./\ : :' : josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org `. `' joss@debian.org `- Debian GNU/Linux -- The power of freedom
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