Analysis of Python 2.7 support in Natty

[Barry Warsaw]

On Feb 04, 2011, at 04:04 PM, Scott Kitterman wrote:

> - The package update analysis for Universe/Multiverse is incomplete at best.
> - Even if packages build, we don't know what runtime issues they will have 
>until users have used them a bit.
> - Debian has not even started to transition to 2.7 (except a very limited 
>number of packages in experimental) and so we don't have the benefit of their 
>work on the transition.

Point #2 is the most compelling argument for me so far, but your other points
are good ones too.  I do plan to run my analysis over universe, but as it
takes a fairly long time just for main, I haven't started that yet.

Now that Squeeze is out, Piotr is planning on enabling 2.7 in testing, though
I think he needs to wait for Matthias to upload a new python-defaults.  I'm
also going to start going through the known Python 2.7 related bugs in Debian
and see which ones have already been fixed in Ubuntu, submitting those fixes
where appropriate.

>The major benefit associated with removal is getting a little CD space back.  
>Since all the ISOs are down to where they fit without this, I think we 
>shouldn't worry about it so much for this cycle.  I'm all for dropping it 
>early (like during the toolchain phase) of Natty +1, but I don't see much in 
>the way of benefit with removal now while I do see significant risks.

This sounds like the most reasonable approach to me.  It also gives us another
two cycles to fix more things before 12.04 LTS is out.

-Barry
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