Hi Sandro. Of course, as you know I do not (yet :) have upload rights, but I do want to help move this along in any way possible. My schedule will be insane until after the Python conference though, and I sure could use some guidance in being more productive in Debian. (BTW, are any debian-python folks going to be at Pycon? I'd love to meet up.) In any case, here are my thoughts. On Feb 28, 2011, at 08:14 PM, Sandro Tosi wrote: >- python policy is severely outdated; the last update was done right >after the freeze (not the most happy timing I think). after that, >nothing (it still advertises to use XB-Python-Version...) Scott has already talked about updating this. >- we are "vividly encouraged" (it's not yet "forced" but we're coming >to it) to use a new helper (dh_python2) which until a bunch of days >ago haven't a manpage, still misses a howto doc to correctly use it >for a new package, and shows it's young age with several >bugs/misbehavior. We all want a single helper, and we want it to work, >don't we? What's the status then? One of the things I want to get back to, is working on dh_python2. I started a branch that added a bunch of unit tests, more documentation, etc. but I didn't get too far. It's still on my todo list and I will hopefully have something Piotr can look at after Pycon. I would definitely like to help make dh_python2 more robust, well-tested, and well-documented. >- no clear guide to provide python3-* packages. Several times already >it was asked before, but still nothing. dh_python3 might be also quite >unstable changing it's interface/behavior quickly, and so what's left >is trying to look at what others are doing, and adapt it to the >current package: that's not how I want it, that's not how a tool >should be released. I haven't looked at dh_python3 as much, but I would also like to help stabilize it. >Call me provocative, call me idiot - I don't care. What I'm simply >saying is that Python is going nowhere, and there's very few signals >of improvements. I think it's good for you to keep up the pressure. I think we know where we want to go, and it's just a matter of freeing up the cycles to make it happen. As I said, I am willing to help, but realistically won't have much time until after Pycon. Cheers, -Barry
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