Re: bin-NMU scheduling for python transition
Em Sun, 20 Aug 2006 01:20:39 -0700
Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org> escreveu:
> Oi Gustavo,
Oi vorlon!
> turbojson and turbogears are arch: all packages and cannot be
> binNMUed. It also doesn't look like they need to be -- they depend
> on python (>= 2.4) | python2.4, which is satisfied just fine.
Oh, sorry, I thought they could be and did not pay enough atention to
notice they were problematic for their dependency on the other packages.
> The other two packages are arch: any and so can be binNMUed, but I'm
> puzzled why they build-depend on python-all-dev if they only build
> for the current version of python. Perhaps this is something you
> would like to fix with a sourceful upload?
Actually, they build extensions for both versions of Python - 2.3 and
2.4; the dependencies are wrong; I guess I'll do a sourceful upload to
get a higher build-dep on debhelper to ensure the deps are generated
correctly, though.
> FWIW, I remain pretty unimpressed with the decision to make the
> control fields optional in the python policy. The pycentral-using
> packages which are binNMUable for the transition have all already
> been binNMUed using only the information in the Packages and Sources
> files, but hunting down the list of binNMUable packages that aren't
> using these fields will require a full, current source mirror and a
> lot of unpacking and rooting around in source packages.
You mean the XB-Python-Version or both? I must confess I failed to see
a reason for XS-Python-Version, but I'm definately willing to include
them in my packages if you say they're both useful.
Thanks,
--
Gustavo Noronha Silva <kov@debian.org>
http://people.debian.org/~kov/
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