> Subject: spambayes: upgrade old (2005) version with 1.1a6 (2010-04-02) > Dale Schroeder <d...@briannassaladdressing.com>: > > For the restless, an unofficial package can be built from source with > the "python-stdeb" package. > I located this info while doing research, after an upgrade to python > 2.6 broke spambayes training. > Build your custom 1.1a6 spambayes against python 2.5 for better results. > > For me (using Squeeze), the following dependencies beyond a default > python install were required for final dpkg installation: > > python2.5 > python2.5-minimal > python-setuptools > python-central > python-pkg-resources > python-dns > python-lockfile > > > Details and howto are available at: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/stdeb > > Credit for my success goes to spambayes developer Skip Montanaro. > My discourse with him on this topic can be viewed here: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/spambayes@python.org/msg07336.html
Guido reported in thread "[Python-Dev] asyncore fixes in Python 2.6 ..." http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2009-March/086672.html On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 12:23 PM, Tres Seaver <tseaver at palladion.com> wrote: > How is anybody supposed to > write a package which sits atop a library like asyncore in a fashion > portable across Python versions? The changes to the implementation in > 2.6 (there is no real API) can't be reconciled, AFAICT. This seems to be the crux of the problem with asyncore, ever since it was added to the stdlib -- there's no real API, so every change potentially breaks something. I wish we could start over with a proper design under a new name. Maybe packages requiring asyncore functionality should just copy the version of asyncore they like into their own three and stick with that. -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) In this light there is no hopein sight to see a compatible library beyond 2.6 and later. For the Debian this means that: either) spambayes is reomed from Debian, because the package is not upgradeable. Debian's official Python version is/will be 2.6 or) the spambayes package ships its own copy of asyncore that it relies on. Skip, would it be possible for you to update spambays and make a new release with asyncore included. In this way it would be Python version agnostic. Thanks, Jari -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
