[Python-modules-team] Django 1.9

[Raphael Hertzog]

On Fri, 04 Dec 2015, Brian May wrote:
> I see that Django 1.9 is now in unstable...

Yeah, I noticed the upload on IRC and asked Chris to cancel it but
it was too late already.

> Raphael Hertzog <hertzog at debian.org> writes:
> 
> > For this to be viable, we would just have to ensure that all Django
> > applications are free of Django warning before any Debian release.
> 
> Regardless of what we decide, I would really like to do this
> one. Ideally we need to be able to work out an automatic way of building
> packages and listing the warnings (maybe this would require changes to
> Django to redirect the warnings someplace??).

I guess there must be some way to change warnings into hard exceptions so
that a test rebuild would fail...

> warnings, the packages in the stable Debian are more likely to be
> compatable with future Django versions, and the local administrator has
> more freedom to install - say a copy of Django from backports.
> 
> However the downside is that these problems will be mostly upstream
> issues, and we would need to convince upstream to fix the warnings, and
> some may not be interested in fixing issues for a future unreleased
> version of Django.

The point is that we only need to fix warnings emitted when you use the last
released LTS version... that's enough to ensure upgradeability to the next
LTS in theory.

Warnings emitted with more recent non-LTS versions are not necessarily
relevant immediately (unless you want to upgrade further than the next
LTS).

Cheers,
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