Re: Status of recent and upcoming changes

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

* Matthias Klose (doko@cs.tu-berlin.de) [060611 17:49]:
> MOVE to python 2.4 / Changing the packaging style for python packages
> [...]
>  - The current pythonX.Y-foo packages having modules in the python
"having only modules"?
>    library path are collapsed into one package python-foo. Binary
>    independent modules are made available for the python versions
"Binary independent" means they contain only of python script files.
Perhaps it's easier to understand if you write it this way?

>    currently supported in the distribution.  Binary dependent
>    extensions are put for all supported python versions into the
>    same python-foo package.  The overhead for a maybe unused
>    extension module was accepted in favour of a reduction of
>    packages, the removed need to rebuild a package for a change
>    of the default python version and less NEW processing when
>    adding new pythonX.Y-foo packages.


Cheers,
Andi
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