Python Roadmap for FeistyFawn
Python plans for feisty (python2.5 as the default, packaging eggs, no more code in /var/lib, revisit supported python packages in main, let the python packages play nice with apt-file and other tools again)
Blueprint information
- Status:
- Complete
- Approver:
- Colin Watson
- Priority:
- Low
- Drafter:
- Matthias Klose
- Direction:
- Needs approval
- Assignee:
- Matthias Klose
- Definition:
- Approved
- Series goal:
- Accepted for feisty
- Implementation:
-
Implemented
- Milestone target:
- None
- Started by
- Matthias Klose
- Completed by
- Matthias Klose
Whiteboard
fabbione: 10/11/06. looks complete enough for Approval.
2006-11-12 kamion: I've left some comments in the spec.
2006-11-15 doko: incorporate feedback
2006-11-15 smurf: review: looks OK
2006-11-29 kamion: I'm still not happy about python-support being dropped on the floor. 45 packages in main and 157 packages in universe depend on it, including a number that we have written ourselves. The transition to python-central is not trivial, not amenable to automation, and will need merging. It surely deserves at least to be mentioned in the specification! Rather than dropping python-support, I would like to see python-support modified to avoid installing files in /var, to avoid the necessity of modifying over 200 source packages in non-trivial ways and having to maintain that delta.
2006-12-07 doko: "python-support being dropped on the floor"; there's nothing in the spec saying that, the comment about the consequences is speculative. splitted out that sub-topic in its own spec no-python-
2006-12-18 kamion: OK then - approved, thanks.
2007-01-18 doko: python2.5 is now the default; all packages in main updated & built.
2007-02-28 doko: python debug builds done, retargeted installation destinations for feisty+1; setting to implemented.
