Bug#620975: transition: python-apt
block 620975 with 622279
thanks
On Di, 2011-04-05 at 16:48 +0200, Julian Andres Klode wrote:
> Package: release.debian.org
> Severity: normal
> User: release.debian.org@packages.debian.org
> Usertags: transition
>
> As I wrote some time ago, the APT team would like to disable
> the old python-apt API for Python 2.X now.
>
> Preparation for this transition started more than a year ago,
> and most packages are now fixed. The transition can be seen in
> [1].
>
> Some time ago, we uploaded 0.7.100+newapi with old API disabled
> to experimental in order to allow further testing. We now uploaded
> 0.8.0~exp1 which does this again.
>
> After the Python transition(s) and once we finished our
> changes for the 0.8 release (1,2,3 weeks), we'd like to
> upload a 0.8 release to unstable.
The python-apt transition is not urgent, and as I wrote, should be done
after the Python transitions, so let's block it by the python-defaults
transition. And having more time for python-apt 0.8's multi-arch stuff
may be a good idea as well, we're still missing a few properties here
and there.
Of course, if you want to do this transition first, change the blocking
direction.
> Packages remaining to be fixed/affected by this transition:
> - python-debian (needs update)
Fixed
> - debdelta (leaf package)
> - dogtail (leaf package, removefromtesting)
> - computer-janitor (leaf package, removefromtesting)
No status change
> - software-properties (needs update)
Fixed
There's also a new bug with update-notifier, although I haven't reported
it yet. update-notifier currently does not byte-compile it's python
script or use python in its build, so it's not part of the python
transition, and can be updated while the transition is undergoing.
--
Julian Andres Klode - Debian Developer, Ubuntu Member
See http://wiki.debian.org/JulianAndresKlode and http://jak-linux.org/.
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