On Sun, 04 Jun 2006 00:27:05 +0200 Marc Dequènes (Duck) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Coin, Hi Marc, > First, asking people should change the /usr/bin/python symlink is > nonsense as this select the current Python version, as selected by the > python maintainer as considered the stable version in > Debian. Applications using 'python' may not work with other versions > correctly, so you may not change it as it could break other apps in > your system, only the python maintainer should change it in the > 'python' package when a planned and prepared transition is going on. Sure, I've already explained that this was a temporary workaround, not the solution. It was a stupid suggestion :-( > Furthermore, your package does FTBFS because everything needed at > clean time must be listed in Build-Depends, not Build-Depends-Indep ; > then listing 'python' in -Indep is a mistake. Moreover, python-dev > *is* needed to ensure distutils (required by setup.py for > installation) would work correctly. But, I'm not using the setup.py upstream. Need I really have python-dev as build-depends? > Then, you should really listen carefully to -mentors and vorlon's > advice before doing hasty and silly uploads. The current > denyhosts-python2.4 now depends on python2.4 but has a executable file > using 'python' in his shebang. You cannot assume people would have the > 'python' package providing this symlink. Moreover having this > versionning split is absolutely useless. Now please have a look at: > http://wiki.debian.org/DebianPythonFAQ Yep, I'm not an expert mainteiner and I've committed a mistake... :-( > Please move your package to python-support and try to understand why > this is food for your package, your users, and read the draft policy > carefully too. This is in my to-do list :-) > You may join the Debian Python Modules Team and/or ask for help in the > [EMAIL PROTECTED] channel. I'm on it... next time that I've problems like this, I'll ask. BTW, now I'm working on a new version of this package. You can see it at http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/collab-maint/ext-maint/denyhosts/ Can you watch this version and tell me about? Thank you for your suggestions, -- Marco Bertorello System Administrator http://bertorello.ns0.it/
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