Re: PEP 453 affects Debian packaging of Python packages

[Tshepang Lekhonkhobe <tshepang@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 3:36 PM, Paul Tagliamonte <paultag@debian.org> wrote:
>   4) Python modules from dpkg are borderline useless for developers. We
>      package modules so that apps can use them, not so that people can
>      develop with them.

Are they 'borderline useless' because they are normally much older
than upstream? I think most development work has no need for
latest-and-greatest.

P.S.: Thanks for the post. I was unloving the tone of the thread.