On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 09:32:49PM +1100, Peter Hawkins wrote: | Are lintian's current python dependency checks on crack or something?
| N: Packages that use python scripts must depend on the package
| N: python-base, probably with a versioned dependency. If the package
| Last time I checked, there weren't any python-base packages installed
| on my system, nor provided by any other packages either. Is lintian
| just plain wrong here, or is it just me?
lintian is, apparently, out-of-date. Prior to the release of python
2.0 with a GPL-compatible license the base package for python was
'python-base'. Due to the (mainly license) problems with moving to
version 2.0, it was provided as python2-base. (see potato to find
those packages) Now a (new) Python Policy has been developed which
uses the naming scheme pythonX.Y and allows for multiple version to be
installed simultaneously.
| I was also under the impression the correct dependency was:
| Depends: python (>= 2.2), python (<< 2.3)
| (or some variant thereof).
Correct. (as I understand it)
HTH,
-D
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