Re: Packaging pypy

[Stefano Rivera <stefanor@debian.org>]

Hi Gustavo (2011.11.28_18:32:52_+0200)
> Would someone here be able to give a hand to Maciej on pushing that
> integration forward?

I'm interested in this, and happy to help. It's probably time to get
PyPy back into Debian, I think all of our amd64 and i386 buildds are big
enough to handle it these days. How do people feel about the other
concerns raised by lamby (CCed, don't know if he still follows this
list) when he removed it?

http://bugs.debian.org/538858:
> One day we can look at packaging this again, but it's not helpful to
> Debian in its current state - it is too premature to have in unstable
> and has some issues that would be difficult to fix. Development is also
> difficult due to the long build times and buildd specifications
> required.
>
> It has a very low popcon - anyone with a non-trivial interest in this
> project would be using upstream's HEAD anyway.

Of course, it would have to be packaged as a separate Python stack,
again. Although it would be interesting to allow modules to be built for
alternate Python implementations, but that's not a trivial project...

SR

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