* (Donovan Baarda) | After going through your options I can see why the Mailman mantainer was | complaining in more detail. The first option is the most attractive for a | script-with-modules package. However to make this really attractive the | default python package should run "dpkg-reconfigure" for all installed | packages depending on "python" in it's postinst script when the default | version of python is upgraded. | | I'd like to recommend this behaviour, in conjunction with python-central | support, to become standard. | | Note that rpm packages support the concept of "trigger scripts", that | presumably would allow you to do things like have dput recompile its | own modules when python is upgraded. dpkg doesn't support this, and until | now I could not see how it would be useful.
Until dpkg supports triggers, I think what the emacsen does it the most sane -- I'd be really, really happy if python modules/apps were done in the same way. :) -- Tollef Fog Heen ,''`. UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are : :' : `. `' `-