Re: lintian and new python policy

[Gregor Hoffleit <gregor@hoffleit.de>]

* Ben Burton <bburton@mail.math.okstate.edu> [011029 15:46]:
> 
> > > Also, someone else reported that lintian complains against
> > > Depends: python (>= 2.1), python (<< 2.2)
> >
> > This is a lintian bug. It's not bothering to notice that one's a less-than
> > and the other's a greater-than.
> 
> Btw, isn't this Depends line problematic anyway?  I could have python 1.5
> and 2.2 simultaneously installed and the depends would be satisfied
> without achieving what the maintainer really wants (i.e. python 2.1).

"python" is a real package, no virtual one. I.e. at any given time,
there is only one package "python" on a system (neither python1.5 nor
python2.1 will provide "python").

    Gregor