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Re: Bug#373387: python transition



Le jeu 15 juin 2006 00:00, Peter Samuelson a écrit :
> unblock 373387 by 373628
> thanks
>
> (This block was a false positive.  While we use cdbs a little, we
> don't actually use it for anything python-related.)
>
> First, it's not clear to me what advantages anyone would get from
> "fixing" the subversion packaging to comply with current python
> policy. I do not see what is broken about our current package.  It
> doesn't hard-code python 2.3 anywhere, so it's binNMUable.  (Well,
> other than the "Provides: python2.3-subversion", which can probably
> go away now. It's left over from renaming the package from that.)
>
> It's even less clear what point there is in supporting multiple
> simultaneous python versions, except to avoid the need for a binNMU
> once every 3 years.  python-subversion has very few users.  Building
> the module code twice, and making the package hard to backport to
> stable, is enough of a pain to make it reasonable to ask what benefit
> these users will get in return.

please follow-up on debian-python@
-- 
·O·  Pierre Habouzit
··O                                                madcoder@debian.org
OOO                                                http://www.madism.org

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