Steve Langasek writes: > On Fri, Jun 02, 2006 at 11:50:53AM -0500, Joe Wreschnig wrote: > > On Fri, 2006-06-02 at 12:52 +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > > * the dependencies (hopefully created automatically by dh_python) will > > > indicate the right interval automatically: > > > right now for example it would be "python (>=2.3), python (<< 2.5)" > > > for a package saying "XC-Python-Version: all" > > > What's the point of such a tight upper dependency? The whole idea was to > > reduce the work for transitions, this still requires a rebuild when we > > upgrade to Python 2.5 (or in fact, whenever the supported versions of > > Python change). > > > Such information is necessary for extensions, but irrelevant for > > programs or other modules. > > Indeed, the intent was that this strict upper bound would apply to > extensions, not to modules. Not sure if that intent got lost somewhere > along the way.
IIRC We did conclude that we need the Provides: pythonX.Y-foo for modules as well and have to regenerate this information if we change the set of supported python versions. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
