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Bug#573437: ITP: importlib -- Backport of importlib.import_module() from Python 2.7



On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 16:41, Matthias Klose <doko@debian.org> wrote:
> On 11.03.2010 15:29, Fladischer Michael wrote:
>>
>> Package: wnpp
>> Severity: wishlist
>> Owner: Fladischer Michael<FladischerMichael@fladi.at>
>>
>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
>> Hash: SHA1
>>
>>
>> * Package name    : importlib
>>   Version         : 1.0.1
>>   Upstream Author : Brett Cannon<brett@python.org>
>> * URL             : http://pypi.python.org/pypi/importlib/
>> * License         : Python Software Foundation License
>>   Programming Lang: Python
>>   Description     : Backport of importlib.import_module() from Python 2.7
>>
>> This package contains the code from importlib as found in Python 2.7. It
>> is provided so that people who wish to use importlib.import_module()
>> with a version of Python prior to 2.7 or in 3.0 have the function
>> readily available. The code in no way deviates from what can be found in
>> the 2.7 trunk.
>
> please call the binary package python2.6-importlib if possible (and not
> python-importlib). The module should not be made available for python2.7 and
> python3.1 (python3.0 isn't in Debian).

Why only python2.6-... ? isn't it compatible with Python 2.5 too? [1]
seems to confirm it's compatible, and since squeeze will be released
with both 2.5 and 2.6, I think a version-neutral name would be better
(using XS-Python-Version to limit the version would be the solution).

[1] http://svn.python.org/view/sandbox/trunk/importlib/setup.py?view=markup

Regards,
-- 
Sandro Tosi (aka morph, morpheus, matrixhasu)
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