Re: Python 3 support in Squeeze

2010-09-09 Thread Neil McGovern
On Thu, Sep 09, 2010 at 06:43:42PM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: > The upstream policy for the python branches is to fix documentation > and bugs, not to introduce new features or change semantics of > existing features. lib2to3 does evolve in in the py3k branch only. > Plus, the 2.6 now only sees s

Re: Python 3 support in Squeeze

2010-09-09 Thread Neil McGovern
On Thu, Sep 09, 2010 at 05:53:59PM +0200, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote: > On Thu, Sep 09, 2010 at 03:54:56PM +0100, Neil McGovern wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 09, 2010 at 11:25:30AM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: > > > >Sometimes 2to3 will find a place in your source code that needs to be > > > >changed, but 2

Re: Python 3 support in Squeeze

2010-09-09 Thread Matthias Klose
On 09.09.2010 16:54, Neil McGovern wrote: On Thu, Sep 09, 2010 at 11:25:30AM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: Sometimes 2to3 will find a place in your source code that needs to be changed, but 2to3 cannot fix automatically. In this case, 2to3 will print a warning beneath the diff for a file. You sho

Re: Python 3 support in Squeeze

2010-09-09 Thread Moritz Muehlenhoff
On Thu, Sep 09, 2010 at 03:54:56PM +0100, Neil McGovern wrote: > On Thu, Sep 09, 2010 at 11:25:30AM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: > > >Sometimes 2to3 will find a place in your source code that needs to be > > >changed, but 2to3 cannot fix automatically. In this case, 2to3 will > > >print a warning b

Re: Python 3 support in Squeeze

2010-09-09 Thread Neil McGovern
On Thu, Sep 09, 2010 at 11:25:30AM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: > >Sometimes 2to3 will find a place in your source code that needs to be > >changed, but 2to3 cannot fix automatically. In this case, 2to3 will > >print a warning beneath the diff for a file. You should address the > >warning in order

Re: Python 3 support in Squeeze

2010-09-09 Thread Matthias Klose
On 08.09.2010 13:48, Neil McGovern wrote: On Mon, Sep 06, 2010 at 10:54:45PM +0200, Piotr Ożarowski wrote: [Adam D. Barratt, 2010-09-06] So upstream have verified the result of 2to3 on their software? yes On a related note, will the build system allow for the result of 2to3 to be easily ove

Re: Python 3 support in Squeeze

2010-09-08 Thread Piotr Ożarowski
[Neil McGovern, 2010-09-08] > I'm slightly worried by: > Sometimes 2to3 will find a place in your source code that needs to be > changed, but 2to3 cannot fix automatically. In this case, 2to3 will > print a warning beneath the diff for a file. You should address the > warning in order to have compl

Re: Python 3 support in Squeeze

2010-09-08 Thread Neil McGovern
On Mon, Sep 06, 2010 at 10:54:45PM +0200, Piotr Ożarowski wrote: > [Adam D. Barratt, 2010-09-06] > > So upstream have verified the result of 2to3 on their software? > > yes > > > On a related note, will the build system allow for the result of 2to3 to > > be easily overridden? For example, if wh

Re: Python 3 support in Squeeze

2010-09-06 Thread Piotr Ożarowski
[Adam D. Barratt, 2010-09-06] > So upstream have verified the result of 2to3 on their software? yes > On a related note, will the build system allow for the result of 2to3 to > be easily overridden? For example, if whilst building an update the > security team discover that there's a problem wit

Re: Python 3 support in Squeeze

2010-09-06 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Fri, 2010-09-03 at 20:50 +0200, Piotr Ożarowski wrote: > [Adam D. Barratt, 2010-09-03] > > On Sat, 2010-08-21 at 00:44 +0200, Piotr Ożarowski wrote: > > > We plan to upload such NEW versions of Squeeze packages to experimental² > > > (one of ftp-team members, who is a member of our team, will h

Re: Python 3 support in Squeeze

2010-09-03 Thread Piotr Ożarowski
[Adam D. Barratt, 2010-09-03] > On Sat, 2010-08-21 at 00:44 +0200, Piotr Ożarowski wrote: > > We plan to upload such NEW versions of Squeeze packages to experimental² > > (one of ftp-team members, who is a member of our team, will help us with > > that), test it there and if everything will be ok

Re: Python 3 support in Squeeze

2010-09-03 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Sat, 2010-08-21 at 00:44 +0200, Piotr Ożarowski wrote: > Squeeze will support Python 3.1 as the first Python 3.X version in > Debian. Unfortunately, we didn't have much time to start preparing > packages with 3rd party modules/extensions for Python 3.X (python2.6 > transition was completed not

Re: Python 3 support in Squeeze

2010-08-21 Thread Andreas Barth
* Piotr Ożarowski (pi...@debian.org) [100821 00:45]: > Please note that in most (all?) cases 2to3 tool (which converts > python2.X code to python3.X one) will have to be used (again, no new > upstream versions) so patching the code in Squeeze (security bugs, etc.) > will not have to be done twice (

Python 3 support in Squeeze

2010-08-20 Thread Piotr Ożarowski
Hi Release Team, [I asked you about this issue at DebConf10 and was told to ask via e-mail again, hence my mail] Squeeze will support Python 3.1 as the first Python 3.X version in Debian. Unfortunately, we didn't have much time to start preparing packages with 3rd party modules/extensions for Pyt