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

2003-11-19 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
> > 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