Bug#622279: transition: python-defaults
Package: release.debian.org
Severity: normal
User: release.debian.org@packages.debian.org
Usertags: transition
This transition is the first major step of meeting the Python release goal for
Wheezy. The plan in this step is to drop python2.5 and add python2.7 in
supported versions. The default python will remain python2.6.
The affected packages have been identified:
http://release.debian.org/transitions/python2.7.html
Because the default python version isn't changing, these do not have to be
done all at once. They can be done in smaller batches so as not to impact
other transitions or overload the buildds. It would be best to do packages
that are used by other packages as build-depends.
There are a few packages that directly depend on python2.5 that will have to
be ported to a newer python version or removed, but the list is small and we
can deal with them in the context of the upcoming python2.5 removal bug and
not this transition. They are:
freevo
gozerbot
libtuxcap
nagios-statd
python-multiprocessing
Of those, python-multiprocessing will definitely be removed since it's a
backport of a module included in python2.6 and later.
python2.7 is already in testing. python-support, python-central, distribute,
and python-stdlib-extensions will need updates. I've discussed this with
maintainers/uploaders for those packages. They have either been in
experimental or are trivial to prepare and will be uploaded in coordination
with python-defaults.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic-pae (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
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