Hi Ben, I have started to think about how to fix this jython RC bug. I don't think waiting for a new release of jython is a solution if we want to have it in etch. So I'm considering shipping duplicates of python 2.1 modules. This raises some questions : 1. which version of python 2.1 modules to include 2. how to package these modules 3. the support of /usr/lib/python2.1/site-packages 1. There are two possibilities : either take the modules from the jython upstream binary release, which should be the same as the python upstream version modulo the jython specific modules, or take the Debian python2.1 package (same modulo). Matthias Klose had patched some of the upstream modules for his Debian package. Do you have preference/clue on this choice ? 2. Adding all these modules to the Debian diff is certainly not a solution (it would be too big , no ?). That made me wonder how you produced the jython tar.gz. On Jython website I only found a .class release, nothing that looks like a source release. Did you reworked this .class file ? Or worked from CVS ? I see to possibilities : either include the new modules in the tar.gz or create a new source package (e.g. python2.1-modules) that would just include these modules and which jython would build-depend on. 3. In your orphaning mail you mentioned the problem of the /usr/lib/python2.1/site-packages. Wouldn't just keeping this directory in the sys.path of jython suffices ? Modules droped in this directory would still be available from jython. Thanks in advance for your help. Regards, -- Nicolas Duboc <nduboc@debian.org>
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