Re: PyYAML in Ubuntu Linux

On Friday 23 February 2007 16:29, Kirill Simonov wrote:
> Hi Scott,
>
> Sorry for the delayed reply.
>
> On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 06:09:13PM -0500, Scott Kitterman wrote:
> > In the Sender Policy Framework (SPF) - http://www.openspf.org/ - project
> > we created a YAML based test suite and used PyYAML to support testing the
> > Python SPF library.
> >
> > In order to make my life easier I packaged PyYAML for the next release of
> > Ubuntu Linux.  The package status is in the Ubuntu NEW queue for review. 
> > You can see it on my Ubuntu package list:
> >
> > https://launchpad.net/~kitterman/+packages
> >
> > Eventually (after it's published), the status will be here:
> >
> > https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pyyaml
> >
> > First, thank you for PyYAML.  We wouldn't have been able to use YAML for
> > the test suite if it hadn't existed.
>
> This is great news, thanks :)
>
...
> Meanwhile you might want to include some patches to your package:
>
> http://pyyaml.org/changeset/233 (fix loading an empty stream)
> http://pyyaml.org/changeset/234 (fix the !timestamp constructor)
> http://pyyaml.org/changeset/246 (fix an obscure issue with
>                                  yaml_path_resolver)
> At least, the revision 233 fixes a common problem.
>
Thanks,

I've updated the Ubuntu package with those changes.  The package has been 
accepted:

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/feisty/+source/pyyaml

and will be in the next version of Ubuntu.

Scott K

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