Re: Python policy (was Re: Experimental Python 2.1 packages, release plans)

[Aquarius <aquarius-lists@kryogenix.org>]

In article <20010624145029.B10807@ignuthuam> you wrote:
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> On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 04:34:35PM +0200, Gregor Hoffleit wrote:
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>> Anyway, while I'm away, perhaps someone could start to audit the packages
>> that depend on Python, and file bugs for all packages that don't have a
>> correct, explicit versioned dependency on python-base like
>> 
>>   Depends: python-base (>= 1.5), python-base (<< 1.6)
>> 
>> or  
>> 
>>   Depends: python2-base (>= 2.0), python2-base (<< 2.1)
>> 
> 
> Hmmm....
> 
> is the implication of this that every package will still need to be
> customised to know which /usr/lib/python-XXX to use?  Is this the
> approach that maintainers are taking?

I'm not sure I follow this either. Are all packages that currently
depend on python-base supposed to now depend on python-base <<1.6, and
all packages that depend on python2-base now to depend on
python2-base>=2.0? It seems to me (with the most horrible command line
in the world -- se below) that no packages at all depend on python-base
like this...

Command line:
[aquarius@riva ~]$ grep-available -FDepends python-base
-sPackage,Depends|less | python -c "import
sys,string;l=sys.stdin.readlines();p=filter(lambda i:i[:9]=='Package:
',l);p=map(string.strip,p);p=map(lambda z:z[9:],p);d=filter(lambda
i:i[:9]=='Depends: ',l);d=map(lambda j:j[9:],d);d=map(lambda
k:string.split(k,','),d);d=map(lambda
n:map(string.strip,n),d);d=map(lambda p:filter(lambda q:
q[:11]=='python-base',p),d);d=map(lambda
r:r[0],d);f=map(None,p,d);f=map(lambda s:string.join(s,':
'),f);f=string.join(f,'\012');print f" | sort

(recombine onto one line). I bet there's a more efficient way to do
this, but grep-dctrl is black magic in parts afaics...

Aq.

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