Neil Schemenauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Please comment.
This all looks good. I do have a question concerning dependencies on
Python modules.
By way of example, suppose I have a package "spam" that embeds Python
2.1, and therefore depends on python-2.1. spam also uses the "eggs"
module, and therefore depends on python-eggs, which depends on
python-2.1 itself.
Now Python 2.2 is released, and eggs is recompiled for it. The spam
maintainer is on holiday, so it doesn't get recompiled for a while.
If I then install "lumberjack", which depends on python-2.2 and on
eggs, apt will upgrade python and eggs to satisfy the dependencies,
and hopefully install "python-2.1" to keep spam happy.
Still with me? All the dependencies are satisfied, but spam doesn't
work any more - the eggs module has disappeared out from under it.
The best solution I can see at the moment is for eggs to provide
something like "python-2.1-eggs", and for spam to depend on that.
Then when eggs is recompiled for Python 2.2, it provides
"python-2.2-eggs", and apt doesn't upgrade anything until spam is
recompiled for Python 2.2 as well.
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