Bug#682906: unblock: python-defaults/2.7.3-2

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

unblock 682906 by 683053
tags 682906 + moreinfo
quit

Piotr Ozarowski wrote:
> [Jonathan Nieder, 2012-12-09]

>>   * pyversions, dh_python2, pycompile: allow to override system's list of
>>     supported Python versions via DEBPYTHON_SUPPORTED and default Python
>>     version via DEBPYTHON_DEFAULT env. variables
>>
>> Do any packages in wheezy use these envvars?  What will happen if they
>> are rebuilt against python-defaults from wheezy?
>
> packages are not using it yet. Once they do, they should use it for
> tests only. Wheezy administrators will be able to easily re-add support
> for Python 2.4 thanks to these envvars (rebuilding one package to add
> 2.4 symlinks should be much easier and safer with envvar than with
> changing list of supported versions system-wide)
[... and lots of other helpful information ...]

Thanks for clarifying.

If someone is interested in getting some appropriate subset of these
changes well tested for wheezy, I suspect the next step is to prepare
an upload for tpu that does not bump the python2.7 requirement.

Marking so.

Hope that helps,
Jonathan