Since the initial announce of the transition to the new Python policy, there has been some grumblings due to some unexpected last minute changes.

I spent a copious amount of time discussing with all parties involved (Matthias Klose and Josselin Mouette mainly), rewrote dh\_python 2 times to accomodate everybody’s needs (those who use the XS-Python-Version field, those who won’t) while still preserving backwards compatibility and went as far as NMUing debhelper to unblock the situation (Joey didn’t want to take an active role in the dh\_python update).

But this is now over and things have settled down. All the infrastructure is now in sid, the interfaces have been defined and won’t change anymore. It’s now really time to continue the transition. Update your python related packages by following the instructions here. Please help by providing patches and NMUing all the packages that have not yet been updated. Join #debian-python on OFTC if you have any questions.

Thanks to everyone who gave a hand to update the infrastructure required for this new policy: Matthias, Josselin, Marc Dequènes for the CDBS class, Joe Wreschnig for the update of the policy, Steve Langasek and Andreas Barth for their advice as release managers.

I gave this morning a quick conference presenting how the PTS works internally. My hope is to attract some contributors like aj (Anthony Towns) managed to do with the BTS. He got impressive results in a few months, I hope I’ll get some too. 🙂

Anyway, for those of you who aren’t there in Darmstaadt at the Debian-QA conference, you can still check my slides. Of course, feel free to ask me some questions if you’re currently trying to hack on the PTS… I’d love to help you if you’re gonna help me maintain it in the long run.

We got some interesting ideas for improvements, I hope they’ll evolve in some patches.

This morning when I arrived to the LSM (Libre Software Meeting) in Dijon (France) I discovered that there was no Debian booth … so I quickly created one. Emmanuel Dreyfus agreed to give me a bit of space on his NetBSD booth. Thanks !

Feel free to come to the little Debian booth. There’s not much to see on the booth but you can bring your stuff if you have…