Re: will 2.6 be default?

[Bernd Zeimetz <bernd@bzed.de>]

Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Le dimanche 13 septembre 2009 à 02:23 +0200, Bernd Zeimetz a écrit : 
>> The patch looks pretty much hackish and I could imagine that it will break a
>> backport of cdbs to Lenny as python2.4 is called with --install-layout=deb, too.
> 
> Of course, if you backport things without thinking of what they do, this
> will produce broken backports.
> 
>> And what I really fail to understand is why you need to tar the directories and
>> rename them... or so.
> 
> This allows to let existing packages that manipulate stuff in
> site-packages/ directories work as is, instead of having to change them
> all to work with python2.6.

I'm not conviced this is a good idea, sorry.
There is /usr/share/python/python.mk if you need to figure out the name of the
directory. Everything else is a hack.

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