Jérôme Marant wrote: > Neil Schemenauer <nas@python.ca> writes: > > It's easier and less error prone for packages to depend on > > python-api-2.1 rather than "python (>= 2.1), python (< 2.2)". That's > > it. > > So i don't see the need for "api" there ... It allows people to package older versions of Python as python-X.Y. Neil