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Re: Challenges packaging Python for a Linux distro - at Python Language Summit

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From	Matthias Klose <doko@debian.org>
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Subject	Re: Challenges packaging Python for a Linux distro - at Python Language Summit
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On 5/16/21 1:52 PM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
>> * One 3.x version at a time. Doesn't line up with cpython's support terms.

> numpy and sci-py, the two "best known" debian python software
> packages, have known about this for a long, long, time.  they
> quietly solved it by adding explicit building of **MULTIPLE**
> versions of numpy-3.5, numpy-3.6, numpy-3.7, etc. etc.

> i leave you with these insights.  there *is* a solution: do what numpy and
> sci-py do.

I don't understand why you are pointing to numpy and scipy as good examples.
The modules are not built in any different way from all the modules shipped in
Debian.

Matthias

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Re: Challenges packaging Python for a Linux distro - at Python  Language Summit Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl@lkcl.net> - 2021-05-16 14:20 +0200
  Re: Challenges packaging Python for a Linux distro - at Python  Language Summit Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl@lkcl.net> - 2021-05-16 14:30 +0200
  Re: Challenges packaging Python for a Linux distro - at Python  Language Summit Thomas Goirand <zigo@debian.org> - 2021-05-16 23:00 +0200
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  Re: Challenges packaging Python for a Linux distro - at Python  Language Summit Matthias Klose <doko@debian.org> - 2021-05-17 12:10 +0200

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