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Re: Django 1.0 - Possibility of a freeze exception?



On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 11:38 PM, Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> wrote:
> Le mercredi 27 août 2008 à 23:33 +0200, Marc Fargas a écrit :
>> > 3. Due to changes in the admin and form applications, Django 1.0 will be
>> > backwards incompatible with 0.96 and the old stable version's use in
>> > Debian might be questionable.
>>
>> That's the second super point, nobody will want 0.96 to work over it
>> when it's incompatible in so many ways with 1.0 (to not say in almost
>> any reasonable use case, just look at the BackwardsIncompatibleChanges
>> wiki page from Django).
>
> Another important thing to consider is that most Django applications in
> the wild already require at least 0.97 even though it wasn't released.
> Shipping 0.96 would therefore be mostly useless.

This is I think the most strongest point. I need the package from
experimental anyway, the one in unstable is useless for most of
applications.

Ondrej

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