[Pkg-gdb-logs] [gdb] 02/03: Update NEWS for Python changes

[Samuel Bronson]

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commit 1d76f2f353a715de9952e6a999aef5f7cde49887
Author: Samuel Bronson <naesten at gmail.com>
Date:   Tue Aug 26 01:43:21 2014 -0400

    Update NEWS for Python changes
---
 debian/NEWS | 17 +++++++++++------
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/debian/NEWS b/debian/NEWS
index 0b968d1..31820cb 100644
--- a/debian/NEWS
+++ b/debian/NEWS
@@ -1,12 +1,17 @@
-gdb (7.7.1+dfsg-3) unstable; urgency=medium
+gdb (7.8-1) unstable; urgency=medium
 
-  WARNING: gdb will use Python 3 by jessie+1 (Debian 9).
+  WARNING: gdb will use Python 3 by default for jessie.
   
-  Exact details still need to be worked out, but we intend to make this
-  the default soon after jessie is released (if not before).
-
   Please update your Python scripts to work on both Python 2 and 3 as soon
-  as possible.
+  as possible; the "six" module may be useful for inspiration here.
+  
+  Users who find this problematic may use python-gdb2 as a stopgap, but
+  any package supplying GDB scripts that depend on one or the other IS
+  BUGGY.  Anyone caught using Depends:, Conflicts:, or Breaks: to force
+  one or the other WILL be dealt with MOST SEVERELY.
+  
+  (However, if such bugs stem from GDB or Python doing something
+  stupid, we'll be lenient.)
 
  -- Samuel Bronson <naesten at gmail.com>  Thu, 14 Aug 2014 17:39:05 -0400
 

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