Re: Bug#221523: Causes build failures

2003-11-26 Thread Donovan Baarda
On Sat, 2003-11-22 at 03:13, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le ven 21/11/2003 à 01:49, Donovan Baarda a écrit : > > Unfortunately, the policy fails to take into account all the > > source-package and build-depends issues. This means the clean separation > > of python and pythonX.Y is not actually that c

Re: Bug#221523: Causes build failures

2003-11-26 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Junichi Uekawa wrote: [ Please don't delete attributions ] > Matthias Klose: >> some people wanted to be able to keep the default python version at >> version 2.2, but install packages from unstable, when the default >> versions were different in testing and unstable. > > I do doubt such spe

Re: Bug#221523: Causes build failures

2003-11-21 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le ven 21/11/2003 à 01:49, Donovan Baarda a écrit : > Unfortunately, the policy fails to take into account all the > source-package and build-depends issues. This means the clean separation > of python and pythonX.Y is not actually that clean... some more work is > needed on the policy to resolve t

Re: Bug#221523: Causes build failures

2003-11-20 Thread Donovan Baarda
On Thu, 2003-11-20 at 09:16, Junichi Uekawa wrote: > > > The configure script is checking for 'python' script. > > > > > > What was the original reason for the 'recommends' instead of > > > 'depends'? It's not really clear to me. > > > > some people wanted to be able to keep the default python v

Re: Bug#221523: Causes build failures

2003-11-20 Thread Florent Rougon
Junichi Uekawa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > The configure script is checking for 'python' script. >> > >> > What was the original reason for the 'recommends' instead of >> > 'depends'? It's not really clear to me. >> >> some people wanted to be able to keep the default python version at >> v

Re: Bug#221523: Causes build failures

2003-11-19 Thread Junichi Uekawa
> > The configure script is checking for 'python' script. > > > > What was the original reason for the 'recommends' instead of > > 'depends'? It's not really clear to me. > > some people wanted to be able to keep the default python version at > version 2.2, but install packages from unstable, wh

Re: Bug#221523: Causes build failures

2003-11-19 Thread Matthias Klose
Junichi Uekawa writes: > > well, I think this is bug in these packages. OTOH, if there are too > > many of these, it might be better to change it back. I did never see > > much sense in keeping pythonX.Y without keeping python. > > The configure script is checking for 'python' script. > > What wa

Re: Bug#221523: Causes build failures

2003-11-19 Thread Junichi Uekawa
> > python2.3 (2.3.2-3) unstable; urgency=low > > > > * Downgrade the dependency of python2.3 on python (>= 2.3) to > > a recommendation. > > > > this seems to have caused buildds to fail because 'python' does not > > exist when building packages build-depending on python2.3-dev > > > >

Re: Bug#221523: Causes build failures

2003-11-18 Thread Matthias Klose
Junichi Uekawa writes: > Package: python2.3 > Version: 2.3.2-3 > > python2.3 (2.3.2-3) unstable; urgency=low > > * Downgrade the dependency of python2.3 on python (>= 2.3) to > a recommendation. > > this seems to have caused buildds to fail because 'python' does not > exist when building