Re: python 2.4?

["Gustavo Franco" <stratus@debian.org>]

On 5/16/06, Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 16 May 2006, Gustavo Franco wrote:
> > I think the Python BoF happened, so is there a thread somewhere with
> > what was discussed, a wiki article or even a blog entry ? I trust that
> > the guys involved took non insane decisions but i would like to know,
> > since we've more than 50 packages to keep ok for Etch just in the
> > Debian Python Modules Team and a lot more that i would like to give
> > attention too out of our team.
> >
> > Closing, who from dpmt was there? I hope buxy was, because i think
> > he's the only dpmt admin in mx (gpastore and i weren't). Probably
> > others dmpt members were too. Well, break the silence and give me
> > updates, please. :)
>
> I were, Matthias Klose was, and Josselin was (and many more people like
> Jeroen, Anthony, Andreas, ...). The discussion has been interesting and we
> have a kind of new python-policy. More on that later, hopefully from
> someone else than me...

Hopefully soon. :)

> Matthias has some updates on python-central on his laptop and he should
> upload it somewhere so that we can take a look.

Ok, but what's the point here? Are we going to drop python-support
usage ? Will python-central provides python-support ? Can we
technically keep using both (we shouldn't IMHO!) ?

> We agreed to switch to python-2.4 in the week following debconf (next week
> that is) and go on with whatever we have at that time.

Great news, i just want to have an idea now, how much work we will
need to put dpmt packages in shape for release.

Thanks,
-- stratus