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Re: Proposal for transition--FRD



Carey Evans <carey@debian.org> writes:

> Mikael Hedin <mikael.hedin@irf.se> writes:
> 
> [...]
> 
> > 6) All packages with files in .../python1.5/ without versioned depends
> > get a critical bug.
> 
> Unfortunately, this leaves someone's system broken if they just
> install some Python packages, and leave the packages that currently
> depend on "python-base (>> 1.5.2)" installed.
> 
> The best solution to this is to get rid of python-base, and have all
> packages depend on python-base-x.y or similar.  Packages only get into

Why not the exciting name "python"?  And confilcts with python-base?
Then all the module that depend on python-base (xxx) to be either
upgrader or removed. Am I right?

It's really strange that we have no "python" package now, try 'dpkg -p
python'. 

/Micce

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