On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 05:52:53PM -0800, Josh Triplett wrote: > The current version of PySol in both testing and unstable ships the > Python source in the package, but does not build from it, and does not > include any easy way to do so. Instead, it ships a single precompiled > .pyc file supplied by upstream, which, according to README.SOURCE in the > source package, is created by concatenating all the source files and > running the result to force Python to compile it. This approach has > several problems: > * Difficult to fix bugs (see bug 237035 for an example). > * No way to verify that the compiled bytecode corresponds to the source. > * If this version is released, it would be difficult to perform security > updates for it. > For these reasons, pysol should be removed from testing until this > problem is solved. remove pysol/4.82-1 hinted for removal. Thanks, -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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