Bug#653802: please remove explicit python2.6 (build)-dependencies

[Matthias Klose]

On 01/01/2012 07:31 PM, Jonas Meurer wrote:
> Am 31.12.2011 02:13, schrieb Matthias Klose:
>> Package: zope2.12 Version: 2.12.20-2 Severity: important User: 
>> debian-python at lists.debian.org Usertags: python2.6-removal
> 
>> Please consider porting zope2.10 to python2.7, so that we can 
>> consider removing python2.6 from sid/wheezy. zope2.12 is the last 
>> (non-trivial) package using python2.6.
> 
> We spended weeks of work on packaging zope2.12 for Debian. Zope2.12
> packages entered the Debian archive in October 2011. In other words it
> has been there for just two months.
> 
> Porting Zope2.12 to python2.7 is not an option in my eyes, upstream
> explicitely mentions python2.5/2.6 as only supported python versions.
> 
> Removing Zope2.12 packages from Debian is not an option either.

zope2.13 was released in Nov 2010, almost 14 months ago. Is there a reason to
upload a zope2.12 version a year after the 2.13 release and stick with zope2.12?
The freeze for wheezy is still more than six months away, so this should be
plenty of time to get ready for zope2.13.

> Thus I honestly object against removing python2.6 from Debian wheezy.

well, it's about building extensions for both python2 versions, plus 2.6 is not
maintained any more (except for a year or two for security releases).

  Matthias