[Python-apps-team] Backporting of cython to oldstable

[Joe Healy]

On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 11:06 PM, Yaroslav Halchenko <yoh at debian.org> wrote:
> Closes: 545809 607097 615932 627773 637388 641128 651996 671070 674073 677405 679359 681697 682652 683676 691704
> 692313 693555 716756
> Changes:
>  cython (0.19.1+git34-gac3e3a2-1~bpo60+1) squeeze-backports-sloppy; urgency=low
>  .
>    * Rebuild for squeeze-backports-sloppy.
>    * Removed numpy as a build depend
>    * Install correct debug files
>    * Added NEWS file warning of risks of FTBFS
>
> cool -- do you have rights to commit to cython's packaging SVN?

No. I'm not too sure how to go about getting that, and my subversion
skills are worse than my git.

Happy to do so if someone can point me in the right direction.

My username on alioth is joehealy-guest if that assists.

> we should
> place these changes into some branch for possible future (re)use, although not
> sure if I would appreciate merges in SVN -- may be  time to move packaging to GIT?
>
> anyone objecting/advocating for such a switch?

I don't know how the team works currently, but git-buildpackage seems
to work reasonably well for us packaging salt.
Rough notes exist at [1] on our usage. I haven't yet managed backports
in a different branch (I'm building my git skills up to that though).

Cheers,

Joe