Re: python 2.3

2006-12-28 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 29 December 2006 03:10, Steve Langasek wrote: > It was? I don't remember this... I certainly wanted to make sure etch > didn't release with ancient, lingering versions of python like 2.1 and > 2.2, but from a release POV I never had strong feelings about getting > rid of python 2.3, whi

Re: python 2.3

2006-12-28 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Dec 22, 2006 at 12:38:05AM +0100, Matthias Klose wrote: > An explicitely stated goal of the release team was to reduce the > number of supported python versions for the next stable release. It was? I don't remember this... I certainly wanted to make sure etch didn't release with ancient,

Re: python 2.3

2006-12-26 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
On Sun, 2006-12-24 at 02:22 -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Thu, 21 Dec 2006, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > > On Fri, 2006-12-22 at 00:38 +0100, Matthias Klose wrote: > > > To conclude, the support of multiple python versions is not meant at > > > all as an excuse for lazy debian main

Re: python 2.3

2006-12-23 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Thu, 21 Dec 2006, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > On Fri, 2006-12-22 at 00:38 +0100, Matthias Klose wrote: > > To conclude, the support of multiple python versions is not meant at > > all as an excuse for lazy debian maintainers depending on python for > > not following upstream python development.

Re: python 2.3

2006-12-21 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
On Fri, 2006-12-22 at 00:38 +0100, Matthias Klose wrote: > An explicitely stated goal of the release team was to reduce the > number of supported python versions for the next stable release. We > did include three python versions for sarge (2.[123]). To reduce that > count we do have to drop 2.3 (

Re: python 2.3

2006-12-21 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
On Fri, 2006-12-22 at 00:38 +0100, Matthias Klose wrote: > To conclude, the support of multiple python versions is not meant at > all as an excuse for lazy debian maintainers depending on python for > not following upstream python development. Are you calling me lazy for not fixing a bug that you

Re: python 2.3

2006-12-21 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
On Fri, Dec 22, 2006 at 12:38:05AM +0100, Matthias Klose wrote: > An explicitely stated goal of the release team was to reduce the > number of supported python versions for the next stable release. We > did include three python versions for sarge (2.[123]). Actually, four: 2.4 is also in sarge (ma

Re: python 2.3

2006-12-21 Thread Matthias Klose
Thomas Bushnell BSG writes: > On Wed, 2006-12-20 at 19:51 -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 11:17:03AM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > > > The python team has apparently decreed that python 2.3 will not be in > > > etch. This forces every package to use the new version.