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Re: RC severity for Python 2.6 related bugs



On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 23:17, Vincent Bernat <bernat@debian.org> wrote:
> OoO En  ce début  d'après-midi ensoleillé du  dimanche 28  février 2010,
> vers 15:29, je disais:
>
>> Well, I disagree. Python 2.6  is not the default. Packages are currently
>> built with Python 2.5 and do not fail to build in a current pbuilder. We
>> already  had a bunch  of bug  reports about  packages not  building with
>> Python 2.6  as default a  few months ago  and it was  a mess to  setup a
>> pbuilder to build with Python 2.6 as default [1]. The solution is easier
>> now but not documented (to the best of my knowledge).

thanks for sharing your tips! I did mine in #571551

> For whoever may be interested, I use this hook for pbuilder:
>
> ,----[ /etc/pbuilder/hooks/A10python2.6 ]
> | #!/bin/sh
> |
> | [ ! -f /usr/bin/python ] || {
> |   apt-get install -y --force-yes python2.6
> |   ln -sf python2.6 /usr/bin/python

at least you need also

ln -sf python2.6-dbg /usr/bin/python-dbg

for those packages needing a debugging-enabled interpreter.

> |   sed -i 's/^default-version =.*/default-version = python2.6/g' \
> |      /usr/share/python/debian_defaults
> | }
> `----

Cheers,
-- 
Sandro Tosi (aka morph, morpheus, matrixhasu)
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