Re: Question for the transition

[Bruce Sass <bsass@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca>]

On Thu, 6 Sep 2001, Neil Schemenauer wrote:

> Bruce Sass wrote:
> > Any program that exists with Python dependent versions will need
> > multiple versions of Python packages.  Maybe Zope today, who knows
> > what tomorrow.  Either Debian supports multiple installed versions of
> > Python out-of-the-box, or users start jumping through a bunch of hoops
> > to do it themselves.
>
> I'm not saying Debian shouldn't support multiple installed versions of
> Python.  I'm saying that the current stable version of Python should be
> in the package "python" or "python-base".  Most packages would depend on
> "python".  Old or experimental versions of Python should be called
> "python-<major>.<minor>".

Ok... but isn't that what causes the problems -- packages depending on
"python" when they really depend on "python-<major>.<minor>".



- Bruce