Re: RFS: Dropbox

[Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>]

* Vincent Cheng <vincentc1208@gmail.com>, 2011-02-19, 02:24:
> Dropbox now depends on the following packages: python2.5, python-dbus, 
> libbz2-1.0, libssl0.9.8, libdbus-1-3, libdbus-glib-1-2, libpng12-0, 
> libpopt0, librsync1, libsqlite3-0, libssl0.9.8, libstdc++6, 
> libwxbase2.8-dbg, python-wxgtk2.8, zlib1g, python-simplejson, 
> python-netifaces
>
> (I've chosen python2.5 over python2.6/3.1 because python2.5 includes 
> all the python-related libraries that Dropbox needs, whereas 
> python2.6/3.1 only includes some.)

You can't just replace a Python extension built for one Python version 
with another built for a different one; in generality, they are not 
binary-compatible.

Incidentally, none of the Pythons in Debian are binary-compatible with 
the one embedded in Dropbox.

Nb, I'm not interested in sponsoring this package, please don't Cc me. 
:)

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Jakub Wilk