Future of python2.6 in Debian

[Matthias Klose]

On 01/04/2012 01:58 PM, Luca Falavigna wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I was pointed at ordereddict package in the NEW queue, which is a
> backport of OrderedDict object, also available in stock python2.7.

please reject it for now.

> After switching python-defaults to python2.7, I'm not sure we
> discussed whether to keep python2.6 for Wheezy or not.
> In theory, we should be able to get rid of python2.6 in time for the
> release (I'd likely be able to act as a driver for the task, as I did
> for python2.4 and python2.5 tear-down).

see
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?tag=python2.6-removal;users=debian-python@lists.debian.org,
the only blocker is packaging of zope2.13. feedback from the zope2 packagers is
outstanding.

  Matthias