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Hello guys, |
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~ As some of you may know, Python-2.6 was launched on Oct 1st, 2008 |
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and have been sitting in the tree since Oct 5th. That is the official |
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production version of the Python programming language. That means, |
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python-2.5 is, according to the Python Project, officially old. |
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~ However, 2.6 version in the tree has been masked because some |
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packages are affected by some minor changes in the language. We added a |
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tracker bug [0] to keep maintainers informed of bugs/errors in their |
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packages regarding the transition from 2.5 to 2.6. This tracker was |
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opened on June 30th 2008 and still has opened bugs. |
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~ The Python team has lay off a plan to unmask Python-2.6 in a |
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month. In order to do so, we ask for your collaboration on fixing the |
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bugs still opened in that tracker so we can unmask it safely. The |
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majority of the bugs listed in there are "relatively" easy to fix and if |
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you don't have the time to do it, please, don't hesitate to ask for our |
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help, we'll be glad to give you a hand closing some of them (we just |
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need a "clear" from the team or dev to do so) |
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~ Although those opened bugs are blocking the tracker already, |
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I'll provide you with a compiled list so you don't even have to open a |
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browser or open a shell to run bugz ;). |
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~ KDE Team: |
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~ http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=239233 - [PATCH] |
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kde-base/superkaramba-3.5.10 should support dev-lang/python:2.6 |
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~ http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=253582 - [PATCH] |
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kde-base/dcoppython-3.5.10 fails with python-2.6 |
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~ Java Team: |
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~ http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=239479 - [PATCH] |
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dev-java/javatoolkit fails with python-2.6 |
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~ http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=246780 - |
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dev-java/ant-core-1.7.1-r2 fails to build with dev-lang/python:2.6 |
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~ CJK Team: |
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~ http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=255210 - |
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app-i18n/skim-1.4.5-r2 build fails with Python 2.6 |
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~ SCI Team: |
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~ http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=258219 - |
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dev-python/numpy-1.2.1 - selftest bugs though required for python-2.6 |
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compatibility |
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~ Caster: |
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~ http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=243802 - |
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app-office/taskcoach calls object.__init__ with arguments, which fails |
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in python-2.6 |
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~ Lack: |
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~ http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=246786 - |
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Version bump: dev-python/gdata-1.2.4 |
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~ Proaudio: |
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~ http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=251003 - |
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[PATCH] media-libs/aubio-0.3.2-r1 not compatible with dev-lang/python-2.6 |
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~ Matsuu: |
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~ http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=258364 - |
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sys-devel/distcc-3.1{,-r1} explictly compiles with python-2.5 even with |
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python-2.6 selected |
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~ Thanks a lot for your help, we'll be waiting to hear from you. |
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~ Best regards, |
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[0] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=230205 - [TRACKER] Python-2.6 |
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incompatible packages |
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Jesus Rivero (Neurogeek) |
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Gentoo Python Team |
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