[Pkg-lyx-devel] [piotr at debian.org: Python 2.7 in, Python 2.5 out, dh_python2]

[Per Olofsson]

2011-02-07 10:43, Sven Hoexter skrev:
> Next chapter of 'Fun with Python in the lands of Debian' is near. :-/

Right ;-)

Fixed in git now.

> 
> Sven
> 
> ----- Forwarded message from Piotr Ożarowski <piotr at debian.org> -----
> 
> Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2011 10:27:06 +0100
> From: Piotr Ożarowski <piotr at debian.org>
> To: debian-python at lists.debian.org
> Subject: Python 2.7 in, Python 2.5 out, dh_python2
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> 
> Hi,
> 
> We plan to upload new python-defaults to unstable really soon now
> (once python2.7 will be available for all architectures in unstable).
> 
> Instead of Python 2.5, it will list Python 2.7 as supported
> (default=2.6; supported=2.6,2.7).
> 
> Once Python 2.7 will be well supported¹ in the archive, Python 2.6 will
> be dropped as well so that Wheezy will support only one Python 2.X version
> (the last one ever released upstream).
> 
> No, that's not meant to make security team's life easier, it's a tricky
> way to force the usage of my dh_python2 helper and get rid of
> python-{central,support} ;-)
> 
> python-stdeb (and py2dsc script) already generates packages that use
> dh_python2; dh_python2(1) manpage will² have quick guide for maintainers
> (based on the one from python-support) after next upload. There's also a
> wiki page³ about converting python-support based package to dh_python2.
> 
> 
> Note to my sponsorees:
> ======================
> Yet another helper transition is approaching (after the central→support
> one): all NEW packages have to use dh_python2 now. Sorry about that,
> feel free to find new sponsor if you don't like this decision. I will
> sponsor python-support based packages until Python 2.6 is in the list of
> supported Python versions. I will not sponsor central→support uploads
> anymore, though. Please convert all python-central based packages to
> dh_python2 (it's a matter of removing python-central build dependency
> and replacing dh_pycentral with dh_python2 or "--with pycentral" with
> "--with python2" or dropping DEB_PYTHON_SYSTEM from debian/rules in most
> cases).
> 
> [¹] some bugs are already reported: http://deb.li/py27
> [²] most recent version: http://deb.li/dhp2
> [³] http://wiki.debian.org/Python/support2dhp2


-- 
Pelle