On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 08:33:26AM -0500, John Goerzen wrote: > Now, I could do the dependency on python (>= 2.2), python (<<2.3) thing. > But what would that gain me or users? I see no benefit there, other than > people tracking sid would find OfflineIMAP uninstallable until it gets > updated to depend on Python 2.3. > > There are plenty of OfflineIMAP users that don't use Python themselves, > don't care that it's written in Python -- and probably some that don't > *know* it's written in Python. > > (And yes, the bang path explicitly calls python2.2) The dependency on python (>= 2.2), python (<< 2.3) is for the case where you have a module which loads into python and supports only a single python version. After python changed you can't install that package (wxgtk-python or whatever) anymore. The positive effect for the users is that you can't upgrade python while wxgtk-python is installed so your system won't break. apt will only upgrade python after a new wxgtk-python is available. That's the benefit of this dependency scheme. Greetings Torsten
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