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   <H1>[Mageia-dev] Python Packaging Policy</H1>
    <B>Antoine Pitrou</B> 
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    <I>Wed Jan 19 12:09:40 CET 2011</I>
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<PRE>On Wed, 19 Jan 2011 08:25:23 +0100
Michael scherer &lt;<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">misc at zarb.org</A>&gt; wrote:
&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> &gt; I'm not sure about &quot;twice the work&quot;: you don't need to track twice the
</I>&gt;<i> &gt; software releases (except for the interpreter itself), or twice the
</I>&gt;<i> &gt; upstream patches, etc.
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> Well, if we handle this like 2 separates languages, that mean 2 separates rpms for
</I>&gt;<i> each modules. Or we should be clever when generating 1 rpm to have the modules
</I>&gt;<i> for both python 3 and python 2 generated ( Except when the developper did choose
</I>&gt;<i> to have separate tarball or code base )
</I>&gt;<i> Having one rpm that produces 2 modules also mean that we will rebuild all modules
</I>&gt;<i> for python3 and all for python2, and I know that for example Buchan will not like
</I>&gt;<i> the extranous trafic it would generate.
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Well AFAIK some other distros (not Debian and Ubuntu which have a more
complicated system) have separate packages per interpreter version
(python2.4-twisted, python2.6-twisted, etc.). But you can put all
versions in a single package too. I see no hard reason against that.

Regards

Antoine.


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