Re: PEP 453 affects Debian packaging of Python packages

[Scott Kitterman <debian@kitterman.com>]

On Wednesday, September 18, 2013 17:16:22 Ben Finney wrote:
> Howdy all,
> 
> Over at the ‘python-dev’ forum, PEP 453 is being discussed. This affects
> Debian packaging of Python, and packages written for Python.
> 
> See the discussion thread and take the opportunity to represent Debian
> <URL:https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2013-September/128723.html
> > while this major change to the behaviour of Python packaging is still
> being specified.
> 
> Note that we don't need a dog-pile; someone with both knowledge and time
> to discuss this will find that reasoned arguments work better there. Who
> can do this?

I like the "we'll do updates later, like the ability to securely verify 
updates."  I wouldn't even put this in the archive, let alone in any kind of 
default install.

I also like the approach of we'll add features to python2.7 and call it 2.7 
still because we know there's no 2.8.  Seems like not really getting the 
point.

Finally, what I read is, other platforms suck, so we're going to try to push 
Linux distros to a lowest common denominator.

Scott K