Improving the distro packaging and installation experience

[James Westby]

On (15/01/07 15:50), Lars Wirzenius wrote:
> On ma, 2007-01-15 at 09:40 -0600, John Arbash Meinel wrote:
> > Does sarge have python2.4? Backporting bzr to support python2.3 would be
> > a fairly involved process. Not impossible, but we use decorators, and a
> > couple places use inline generators.
> 
> It does. The default Python on sarge is still 2.3, but 2.4 is included
> and works fine.
> 

Yes, I have a backport 0.8 I believe of bzr on that system at the
moment, but builddeb requires 0.14 (thought I could go back to 0.13
actually now the deprecation fix is in, thanks).

Myself and Wouter had a quick stab at a backport of 0.13 the other day.
It is not that that is the problem, it is the dependency on paramiko,
which requires a new python-crypto as the one in sarge doesn't provide
2.4 modules. This in turn requires libgmp3-dev. This went through the
C++ ABI transition in the early days of wtch. There is a backport on
bpo I believe, but that is built against the new glibc they have and I
didn't want to force a libc upgrade for this.

I could go for a full etch chroot, or even go for an etch upgrade now,
but I don't really fancy that.

If anyone has any suggestions please let me know.

Thanks,

James

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