On Tue, 2003-07-22 at 20:03, Dan Jacobson wrote: > I see my sid system has collected various python 2.1 and 2.2 packages, but > no 2.3 packages. Couldn't there be a python metapackage that I could > install to always keep python at its freshest, also saving disk space > by disposing older versions? When Debian switches its default Python version to 2.3, the metapackage 'python' will depend on Python 2.3. Likewise, the various python-foo packages will (if their maintainers are active) depend on python2.3-foo instead of python2.2-foo, as they do currently. Conflicting with an old version of Python is a bad idea, because the migration from x to x+1 does not happen instanteously, and so you may very reasonably with x and x+1 to be installed together. -- Joe Wreschnig <piman@debian.org>
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