resending to d-python, probably there's more audience here then on DPMT ml
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 20:48, Michael Fladischer <mich...@fladi.at> wrote:
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> Hi team,
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> Following up #606711, I'd like to ask what's the best way to tailor
> python dependencies for a package when it's content is a backport of a
> future Debian default python (e.g. 2.7) feature?
>
> In the case of importlib, it's inclusion in upstream python started with
> 2.7 but I'd like to provide the backport for at least 2.6.
>
> python-support translates "XS-Python-Version: 2.5,2.6" into "python (<<
> 2.7)" for ${python:Depends}, so once 2.7 becomes the default for Debian,
> importlib would no be installable for python2.6.
>
> Matthias Klose came up with patching ${python:Depends} during build.
> After a conversation with Sandro Tosi we came up with omitting
> ${python:Depends} and defining the dependencies manually like this:
> "python2.6 | python2.5".
>
> Is there a better way to do this with python-support?
>
> And as a accompanying question: Does it make sense to still support
> python2.5?
>
> Thanks for your help,
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> Michael Fladischer
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