John Salerno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What is really confusing is that I did a search for 'sqlite' in my > Ubuntu repositories and it came up with entries like this: > > python2.4-pysqlite1.1 python interface to SQLite 3 > python2.4-pysqlite2 python interface to SQLite 3 > python2.4-pysqlite python interface to SQLite 2
That's python2.4-sqlite, not python2.4-pysqlite. The reason for both having pythonX.Y-foo and python-foo packages is Debian's (and therefore Ubuntu's) Python package policy. > python-pysqlite1.1 python interface to SQLite 3 > python-pysqlite2 python interface to SQLite 3 > python-sqlite python interface to SQlite 2 > > Needless to say, the numbering had me banging my head against my > desk. Sorry to hear that, and I can understand that the names are a bit confusing. Here's the story behind the mess: In the beginning (well, at least in 2003 when I found out about SQLite), SQLite was up to version 2.something and the Python module was called sqlite.py. While the Python module *project* was called pysqlite 0.something, Debian modules were generally called python-foo when providing the module foo; hence the name python-sqlite. Then, SQLite 3 was released (incompatible with SQLite 2 databases), and pysqlite 1.1 was released with the same module name (sqlite.py) and API as the old sqlite.py module but linked against SQLite 3. I decided not to package that version but instead wait for pysqlite 2, a rewritten and improved version linked against SQLite 3 and with a new Python API. pysqlite 2 was released and the Python module was called pysqlite2.dbapi2. I didn't think python-sqlite3 would be a good name for the Debian package since there were actually two different pysqlite versions (both actively maintained) linked against SQLite3, so I ended up calling the package python-pysqlite2, following the name and version of the pysqlite project instead of the module. Finally, by request of Debian users, I also packaged the other pysqlite version linked against SQLite 3 giving the package python-pysqlite1.1. Oh, and then there's python-apsw too. :-) Regards, Joel (maintainer of Debian's Python-related sqlite packages) -- Joel Rosdahl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Key BB845E97; fingerprint 9F4B D780 6EF4 5700 778D 8B22 0064 F9FF BB84 5E97 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
