On Thu, 2006-01-19 at 09:31 +0000, Colin Watson wrote: > On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 11:36:13PM -0600, Joe Wreschnig wrote: > > On Thu, 2006-01-19 at 12:12 +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > > > Some reasons: > > > > > > * compatability with Ubuntu -- so that packages can be easily ported back > > > and forth between us and them; I expect most of the work ubuntu might do > > > on improving boot up will require python-minimal > > > > This would be nice. Right now it's accomplished through patches Ubuntu > > makes to dh_python and cdbs. They'd probably like to drop those. > > As a point of information, Ubuntu doesn't patch dh_python at present, > and I don't see any Python-related changes in cdbs at the moment either. Oh, hrm. So packages that need to use python-minimal manually handle their Python dependencies? That seems like a significant step backwards, in terms of handling transitions. > $ dpkg -c /mirror/ubuntu/pool/main/p/python2.4/python2.4-minimal_2.4.2-1ubuntu2_i386.deb | grep socket > -rw-r--r-- root/root 49608 2006-01-17 12:59:02 ./usr/lib/python2.4/lib-dynload/_socket.so > -rw-r--r-- root/root 12876 2006-01-17 12:58:18 ./usr/lib/python2.4/socket.py D'oh. Apparently I'm blind. Thanks. -- Joe Wreschnig <piman@debian.org>
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