[Scott Kitterman, 2009-09-08] > On Tue, 08 Sep 2009 17:48:18 +0200 Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> > wrote: > >> Twas brillig at 16:42:41 08.09.2009 UTC+02 when piotr@debian.org > >> did gyre and gimble: > >> PO> I.e. using build dependencies to determine[1] requested Python > >> PO> versions. Joss mentioned it on #debian-python recently so I guess > >> PO> he's willing to remove pyversions... > > > >I can remove it, but only when all packages using it have stopped doing > >so. And frankly it sounds better, if we have to migrate them, to migrate > >them to a new build-dependencies based system rather than migrating them > >twice. > > Since the build-dep approach should have agreement from all the helper > maintainers before it moves forward, I think it would be a good first > step to mark pyversions deprecated (initially in favor of XS-* and > later in favor of the build depends approach) and leave it up to > package maintainers if they care to change in the near term. how about using build dependencies *if* pyversions and XS-P-V are not set and removing support of these fields once all packages will use the new approach? -- -=[ Piotr Ożarowski ]=- -=[ http://www.ozarowski.pl ]=-
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