Re: list of package for python_support -> dh_python2 ?
On Sunday, June 12, 2011 10:24:51 AM Yaroslav Halchenko wrote:
> On Sun, 12 Jun 2011, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote:
> > > I am asking because I have a few packages which use pysupport now and
> > > it seems to work (so it is the mighty for me)... not sure if I am
> > > ready to invest time into doing a conversion which has some plausible
> > > benefits which I could not sense right away.
> >
> > You don't have to do the conversion yourself. You need just accept
> > patches to do so.
>
> and take care about making them working starting at least from squeeze
> and some LTS of ubuntu so I could painlessly provide backports for our
> neuro.debian.net . Ha -- squeeze seems to have the same version of
> dh_python2 as my laptop, good. How far do you think it would be
> compatible back with ubuntu releases so backporting would be painless?
Backporting to Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty) and 10.10 (Maverick) should be similar.
Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid), the latest LTS release, does not have dh_python2, but a
backport is being worked on so it should be easy enough to backport to soon.
Scott K
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