On Sat, Sep 05, 2009 at 08:40:30PM -0700, Ludovico Cavedon wrote: > Steve Langasek <vorlon <at> debian.org> writes: > > The XS-Python-Version field was specified as a tool for detecting, without > > having to download and inspect individual source packages, that a given > > package can be successfully rebuilt for a python transition, to aid the > > release team in this work.
> I see, it makes sense.
> > The python-support maintainer's decision to undermine this doesn't represent
> > best practices, it represents his personal opinion.
> So you are suggesting that to keep both pyversions and
> XS-Python-Version, correct?
If pyversions is necessary for python-support, then unforunately, yes.
> It would be interesting the ability to generate them on the basis of
> pyversions (e.g. XS-Python-Version: ${somevariable})
Not possible; it needs to be spelled out in debian/control to end up in the
sources file, substvars aren't used in .dsc generation.
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