On Wed, Nov 05, 2014 at 02:38:39PM +1100, Brian May wrote: > Package: debian-policy > Severity: normal > > The httpd-wsgi virtual name was added in response to #588497. > > However, as per the following email: > > https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2014/09/msg00719.html > > "WSGI is an API, not a wire protocol. The Python version of the WSGI > server would also be the Python version the code is run under, so we > must distinguish between Python 2 and 3. The best way would probably be > to specify that httpd-wsgi is for Python 2 and create a httpd-wsgi3 > virtual package for Python 3." > > This means, as currently written, Python2 packages that depend on > httpd-wsgi might get a Python3 implementation of WSGI, which won't work. > > Similarly, Python3 packages that depend on httpd-wsgi might get a > Python2 implementation of WSGI which also won't work. > > We need two virtual package names, one for Python2 and one for Python3.
What I am unclear is why a single virtual package httpd-wsgi3 will work for python 3.2, 3.3, 3.4 etc. Cheers, -- Bill. <ballo...@debian.org> Imagine a large red swirl here. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20141123171956.GB13767@yellowpig
