Today there was a little discussion in #debian-python about Python plans as soon as wheezy cycle starts (as you know, that will probably happen on early february, see [0]), let's discuss it here to give people a chance to express their opinions. It was initially proposed to drop both 2.5 and 2.6 to supported versions, and set 2.7 to default, but this is seen as too much risky, even at the beginning of the development cycle. A saner solution seems to leave 2.6 as default for now, moving 2.7 to supported and dropping 2.5 at the same time. This will not bring in major disruptive behaviours, and leave time to prepare the road to 2.7 as default and removing older 2.5 very soon in the cycle. I volunteer to help out to get rid of python2.5 for wheezy (help is of course very appreciated!): I'm going to prepare an environment to help this task, and will probably begin efforts as soon as python-defaults maintainers agree to changes to supported versions. In the meantime, Barry is spending a lot of efforts in python2.7 transition for Ubuntu Natty (see [1] for some details), so we could benefit from his work a lot once we will be ready to start transition on Debian too. Comments? [0] http://lists.debian.org/<20110118193635.GC4061@halon.org.uk> [1] http://wiki.debian.org/Python/27transition -- .''`. : :' : Luca Falavigna <dktrkranz@debian.org> `. `' `-
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