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Re: Proposed Email to the release team about XS/B-P-V



On Wednesday, June 23, 2010 10:01:03 pm Paul Wise wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 1:15 AM, Scott Kitterman <debian@kitterman.com> 
wrote:
> > In Debian Python we are currently discussing how best to specify version
> > information for Python 3.  There is a strong (but not unanimous) view
> > among the participants in debian-python@l.d.o and #debian-python that
> > Python(2) and Python 3 are sufficiently different that they should be
> > treated as essentially separate run time systems.  If a package
> > expresses support for Python versions greater than (for example) 2.4,
> > this should never include any Python 3 versions.
> 
> Your mail doesn't seem to mention the planned python-foo/python3-foo
> duplication for modules that are portable to both versions of python.

The email is meant to go to the release team to address what I understand to 
be release team specific requirement.  I think that the broader question needs 
to be discussed in a broader audience.

Scott K


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