Re: Proposed Python Policy changes for shipping py3versions

[Scott Kitterman <debian@kitterman.com>]

On Sunday, June 06, 2010 08:46:01 am Scott Kitterman wrote:
> "Jakub Wilk" <jwilk@debian.org> wrote:
> >* Scott Kitterman <debian@kitterman.com>, 2010-06-05, 19:31:
> >>+	  will represent the current default Debian Python version.  The
> >>+	  binary package <package>python3</package> will represent the current
> >>+	  Debian Python3 version.  As far as is reasonable, python and python3
> >>+	  should be treated as separate runtime systems with minimal
> >>+          interdependencies.  Except as noted, policy for Python 3 is
> >>the same
> >
> >Either "Python 3" or "Python3" spelling should be used consistently. I'm
> >in favor of the former.
> 
> Agreed.
> 
> >>+	  built or byte-compiled for these.  The supported interface to this
> >>+	  file is <file>/usr/share/python/pyversions</file>.  The Python 3
> >>+          interface is through
> >><file>/usr/share/python/py3versions</file>.
> >>
> >> 	</p>
> >
> >Huh? Are we going to move pyversions out of /usr/bin/? That would break
> >hell lot of packages.
> 
> No. Mistake on my part. Thanks for catching.
> 
> >>+Build-Depends: python3-all-dev (>= 3.1-1)
> >
> >This will trigger lintian's build-depends-on-1-revision.
> 
> Good point.  Will fix.
> 
> Thanks for reviewing.
> 
> Scott K

Thank you for the feedback.  I'm committed the change to 
https://alioth.debian.org/anonscm/bzr/pkg-python/python-defaults-debian and it 
will be in the next python-defaults upload.

Scott K