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Re: Python scrips and deps



On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 03:38:34PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 01:02:12PM +0100, Ross Burton wrote:
> > "doclifter was written under Python 2.2a1.  It will not work under
> > Python 1.5.2, and may not work under 2.1.  Upgrade, it will be good for
> > you."
> 
> IMO this means that RMS had used some features that aren't available in
> versions earlier than 2.2.
> Now that standard python version in debian is 2.2, you can safely
> depends on python >= 2.2 and python << 2.3, or even better if the app is
> fully python on python and nothing more.

Please still use at least 'python (>= 2.2)' (I don't know the details of
the Python policy, but something with that kind of effect), to help
people trying to work out how to backport packages to stable.

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]



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