Le jeudi 11 octobre 2007 à 14:03 +0200, Peter Eisentraut a écrit :
> Am Donnerstag, 11. Oktober 2007 schrieb Josselin Mouette:
> > AIUI you are hardcoding python 2.4, telling yourself that you will
> > change that to 2.5 when it becomes the default. And doing that, you will
> > make the transition of 70 other packages depend on your work.
> 
> Why is that?

Because all packages with strong dependencies to python have to migrate
to testing together when the python version changes.

> > The real, good solution is to build the extensions for all available
> > python versions.
> 
> That wouldn't be of any practical value, unless you propose to also build 
> alternate versions of the other binary packages linked against each of the 
> available python versions.  I don't see what the use of that would be.

This is already done in Debian for most of the packages providing python
extensions.

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