Path: csiph.com!aioe.org!bofh.it!news.nic.it!robomod From: Julien Puydt Newsgroups: linux.debian.maint.python Subject: Re: requesting help updating a python package Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2016 07:00:02 +0200 Message-ID: References: X-Mailbox-Line: From debian-python-request@lists.debian.org Tue Sep 27 04:55:21 2016 Old-Return-Path: X-Amavis-Spam-Status: No, score=-10.177 tagged_above=-10000 required=5.3 tests=[BAYES_00=-2, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, LDO_WHITELIST=-5, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-0.7, RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-3.099, SARE_FREE_WEBM_LAPOSTE=0.721] autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Policyd-Weight: using cached result; rate: -6.2 Dkim-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=simple/simple; d=laposte.net; s=mail0; t=1474952105; bh=Ds6YSRySo/ICeU0dzHN1+fDqt1vUd23GYZQuIfCxLAM=; h=Subject:To:References:From:Date:In-Reply-To; b=P4SE9xDjaiWXtAODA5vl1a5m59NngabssCaF3RsgisgoABgV97KLwMRxBa3jDPwih mdTOHdIwTrrevKlOK5qJoFE+lKHQbKGsTHCLJ6FAATxn44udd0Buja0HXFRPgYmCXa BlMbRgMJEw8L0mSe7XoQ0YiRBbLauSk6FFS1E0/cIAqKLeRsqcIR2SIHmEa0K63KYU TfAdCghlUNav8XW+xvQnQAwWfHYUEA2ZQfguje6N6AJgN5Ge6/miFDmziVl3dqCaHY h9bPhJe7qE42jUpWsGvAU/drE/CUPGM3kW1+sXUnDHMDDQJhiQd5SQB69V7b3cJdZK 0vXtA1WgkfFCg== User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Icedove/45.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Vr-Srcip: 88.180.16.216 X-Vr-Cause-1: gggruggvucftvghtrhhoucdtuddrfeelvddrudeggdelgecutefuodetggdotefrodftvfcurfhrohhf X-Vr-Cause-2: ihhlvgemucfntefrqffuvffgnecuuegrihhlohhuthemucehtddtnecunecujfgurhepuffvfhfhkfff X-Vr-Cause-3: fgggjggtgfesthejredttdefheenucfhrhhomheplfhulhhivghnucfruhihughtuceojhhulhhivghn X-Vr-Cause-4: rdhpuhihughtsehlrghpohhsthgvrdhnvghtqeenucffohhmrghinhepuggvsghirghnrdhorhhgnecu X-Vr-Cause-5: kfhppeekkedrudektddrudeirddvudeinecurfgrrhgrmhepmhhouggvpehsmhhtphhouhhtpdhhvghl X-Vr-Cause-6: oheplgduledvrdduieekrddurdduudgnpdhinhgvthepkeekrddukedtrdduiedrvdduiedpmhgrihhl X-Vr-Cause-7: fhhrohhmpehjuhhlihgvnhdrphhuhigutheslhgrphhoshhtvgdrnhgvthdprhgtphhtthhopeguvggs X-Vr-Cause-8: ihgrnhdqphihthhhohhnsehlihhsthhsrdguvggsihgrnhdrohhrgh X-Vr-Avstate: No X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/14247 List-ID: List-URL: List-Archive: https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/996e70c8-0700-8baf-1975-ebfbc93caa10@laposte.net Approved: robomod@news.nic.it Lines: 22 Organization: linux.* mail to news gateway Sender: robomod@news.nic.it X-Original-Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2016 06:55:02 +0200 X-Original-Message-ID: <996e70c8-0700-8baf-1975-ebfbc93caa10@laposte.net> X-Original-References: <499b39a8-c4b9-4d87-8b80-37e21e1aec90@EXHT01.net.ucsf.edu> Xref: csiph.com linux.debian.maint.python:8905 Hi, On 27/09/2016 01:16, Boylan, Ross wrote: > I'd like to use zodb, and it looks as if the most recent Debian version available is 3.3, and that's available only for python2. I'd like to use the current zodb, 5.0, with python3. Aside from preferring to use current software, it looks as if zodb 5 with python 3 sometimes has significant performance advantages. > > I believe I could just install it using easy_install, but since this has many dependencies I'll end up with a lot of local python packages that the Debian package system won't know about. > > So I thought I might try updating the existing package (and maybe its dependents). It has some oldish (1 year) requests for newer updates against it, and so I suspect the maintainers aren't too active. The control file references Vcs-Svn: svn://anonscm.debian.org/pkg-zope/zodb/trunk, which has only the debian directory. > > I'm guessing this is all supposed to work with svn-bp.alioth.debian.org, but am not sure how to proceed. And since I don't have or want commit privileges, I'm not sure that working with subversion is a good idea. > > Any suggestions how to proceed? I have also downloaded a semi-random python3 package (python3-bitarray, which has some C code) to see how things are packaged for python3. > > Should I expect that the debhelper scripts will be able to figure out the dependent packages without my need to specify them explicitly? > > Thanks. > Ross Boylan > Isn't there a maintainer/uploader for this package, whom you could ask? Snark on #debian-python