<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title></title> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> On 06/09/2011 01:25 PM, Barry Warsaw wrote: > One of the blueprints for Oneiric centers around transitioning our Python > packages to use the dh_python helpers. For Python 3, there's no question that > dh_python3 is the helper to use. > > For Python 2, we have three helpers. dh_python2 is the new goodness and we > want to transition all our Python 2 packages to use it. python-central is > deprecated in Debian, so this transition should be uncontroversial. > python-support is not deprecated, so in Debian it is up to the maintainer to > accept patches to move to dh_python2. > > At the very least, we would like to remove python-central and python-support > from the Oneiric CDs. Ideally, we'd be able to get rid of them from Ubuntu > altogether. > > Here's where you can help! > > This wiki page is the central place for coordinating the transition in Ubuntu: > > <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BarryWarsaw/PythonHelpers">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BarryWarsaw/PythonHelpers</a> > > and this is the blueprint that tracks the work: > > <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://tinyurl.com/3fyvt6h">http://tinyurl.com/3fyvt6h</a> > > If you're looking to build your packaging cred by helping with the > transitions, I am willing to help sponsor your work. Take a look at the > packages listed on the various pages and bugs, and try to convert them to > dh_python2. If you can submit a merge proposal, that would be fantastic; > please add me as a reviewer (Launchpad ID: barry) and I'll sponsor your upload > if it looks good. > > My recommendation would be to start with the packages that are on one of the > CDs, and which only use pysupport or pycentral on Ubuntu. Those we can change > in Ubuntu without coordination through Debian. Then move on to the pycentral > packages on the Ubuntu CDs, followed by the pysupport packages on the CD. For > these, please do check with Debian 1) to see if there is a newer version of > the package that now uses dh_python2; 2) to submit a patch for pycentral > packages or check with the Debian maintainer for pysupport packages. > > Thanks, and feel free to ping me on IRC (nick: barry) if you have any > questions. > > My wiki page referenced above has links to the Debian wiki pages that provide > instructions on how to do the migrations. > > Cheers, > -Barry Hi, would you be interested in having a transition set up in our transition tracker [1] for this? Micah [1] <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-archive/transitions/">http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-archive/transitions/</a> </body> </html>