Re: Packaging python-egenix-mx*

[Joel Rosdahl <joel@debian.org>]

Matthias Klose <doko@cs.tu-berlin.de> writes:

> Federico Di Gregorio writes:
> > On Sun, 2001-10-28 at 22:34, Joel Rosdahl wrote:
> > > 3. As the policy mandates, I have made the packages depend on
> > > 
> > >        python (>= 2.1), python (<< 2.2)
> > > 
> > >    Lintian doesn't really like that.  :-)  For example:
> > > 
> > >        E: python-egenix-mxdatetime: package-has-a-duplicate-relation python
> > >        N:
> > >        N:   The package seems to declare a relation on another package more than
> > >        N:   once. This is not only sloppy but can break some tools
> > >        N:
> > > 
> > >    Okay, this wasn't a question, just a note.
> 
> Which tools are this? Basically the error should prevent something
> like python (>=1.x), python (>> 1.y).

I don't know.  :-/

> > > 4. Any other comments?
> > > 
> > > Oh, and if anyone wants to look at or test the packages, get them
> > > here:
> > > 
> > > deb http://joel.rosdahl.net/debian/ ./
> > > deb-src http://joel.rosdahl.net/debian/ ./
> 
> looks ok. Would it make sense to add a 'Replaces:' line for those
> packages without the '-egenix' part? I.E:
> 
> Package: python-egenix-mxdatetime
> Replaces: python-mxdatetime

No, I don't think so, since they aren't compatible (e.g. to use
mxDateTime 1.3.0 you import DateTime, but to use mxDateTime
2.0.2 you import mx.DateTime).

> Could you copy these packages to ftp-master.debian.org in
> ~doko/www/python-uploads?

Will do today or tomorrow.

        Regards,
        Joel

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