[Bulk] Re: [SCM] dmedia/master: Add more substvar usage in debian/control

[Jonas Smedegaard]

On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 03:57:37PM +0100, Alessio Treglia wrote:
>On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 3:54 PM, Alessio Treglia <alessio at debian.org> 
>wrote:
>> On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 3:41 PM, Jonas Smedegaard <dr at jones.dk> 
>> wrote:
>>> Also, I heard rumors that switching from one Python helper to 
>>> another may require special transitioning code in preinst/postinst. 
>>>  Not sure about the details - would appreciate pointers if anyone 
>>> else knows.
>>
>> This is true when switching from python-support to python-central, 
>> moving the packaging from python-support to dh_python2 does not need 
>> that.
>
>Adopting dh_python2 on a new package now will ease the future 
>transition (which should happen in Squeeze+1) to the newer helpers 
>generation.

Any references for that?

Personally I prefer to keep Python packages backportable at least until 
Squeeze is out - and if possible without too much trouble until support 
for Lenny is dropped.


  - Jonas

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