[Python-modules-team] Bug#589172: please provide 2 packages: pyro and pyro4

[Alexandre Fayolle]

As Sylvain said, pyro4 breaks the abi and therefore this upgrade breaks any 
application deployed on the system depending on pyro 3.x. 

The best move imo would be to keep pyro4 in experimental, since most users are 
using the official stable release (3.x branch), and reverting to pyro3 in 
sid/testing. 

I suggest providing 2 packages pyro and pyro4, which could at first conflict 
with each other. I think upstream should be contacted, and asked to change the 
namespace of pyro 4.x to pyro4 in order to ease parallel installation of both 
versions. 

In any case, please do not release squeeze with pyro 4.x as "pyro". This will 
be very painful. We really want pyro 3.9 in squeeze, as 4.x will break 
external applications. 

I'll be happy to help on this matter once 
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