python2.3/python2.4/python packages

[Pavel Šimerda <pavel.simerda.lists@centrum.cz>]

On 2006-02-01 21:20, Bob Tanner wrote:
> Pavel ?imerda wrote:
> > Hi people....
> > I debian/testing there's a deb package called just 'kid'. It's a very
> > nice templating system for python.
> >
> > Debian's package 'kid' is for python2.3... so I'd maybe prefer calling it
> > python2.3-kid.
> >
> > And there's no python2.4 version of this package...
> > Although it's easy to install it using python2.4 setup.py install... it
> > doesn't install 2.4's scripts properly.
> >
> > Pavel
>
> Officially, wait for DD to push it
>
>         http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=338276

So it means.... debian's default version of python is 2.3 so everybody will 
use python 2.3 if he wants things working?

At first look I thought python packages in debian are called 
python2.3-packagename and python2.4-packagename. And that there's a 
metapackage python-packagename that requires the 2.3 version installed.

Now I see this is not so with all packages.... and it is hard to see which 
packages are present in python2.3 and missing in python2.4. 

would it be so difficult to rename the packages according to this scheme?

Examples:

I'll return to the package kid... what I would expect is:
* the package would be python2.3-kid instead of just 'kid'
* meta package python-kid would depend on python2.3-kid
* meta package kid would depend on python-kid (for backwards compatibility)
(* later there could be a new package called python2.4-kid)

Then there's also package python-wxgtk2.6:
* as it's actually python2.3 version, I would rename it python2.3-wxgtk2.6
* metapackage python-wxgtk2.6 depending on python2.3-wxgtk2.6
* what about python-wxgtk (?)
(* again, we would be prepared for python2.4-wxgtk2.6)


So... what do debian folks think about it?

Pavel


> Unofficially
>
> deb ftp://ftp.real-time.com/linux/real-time-debpool sid custom main
> deb-src ftp://ftp.real-time.com/linux/real-time-debpool sid custom main
I am now running unstable...
>
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