On Thu, 6 Sep 2001, Neil Schemenauer wrote: > Bruce Sass wrote: > > Any program that exists with Python dependent versions will need > > multiple versions of Python packages. Maybe Zope today, who knows > > what tomorrow. Either Debian supports multiple installed versions of > > Python out-of-the-box, or users start jumping through a bunch of hoops > > to do it themselves. > > I'm not saying Debian shouldn't support multiple installed versions of > Python. I'm saying that the current stable version of Python should be > in the package "python" or "python-base". Most packages would depend on > "python". Old or experimental versions of Python should be called > "python-<major>.<minor>".
Ok... but isn't that what causes the problems -- packages depending on "python" when they really depend on "python-<major>.<minor>". - Bruce
