On Mon, Jun 12, 2006 at 09:59:58PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote:
> Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org> writes:
> > AFAIR, a package
> > should not have to depend on python2.3 and python2.4; instead, applications
> > that need a specific version of the interpreter should depend on it
> > themselves.
> I hope that it will be possible for such apps to do it without
> specifying which version exactly (by declaring an appropriately
> versioned dependency on python).
Apps can do either:
Package: foo
Depends: python (>= 2.4), python-bar
/usr/bin/foo: #!/usr/bin/env python
or
Package: foo
Depends: python2.4, python2.4-bar
/usr/bin/foo: #!/usr/bin/env python2.4
depending on their needs.
Cheers,
aj
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