On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 04:34:35PM +0200, Gregor Hoffleit wrote: > Anyway, while I'm away, perhaps someone could start to audit the packages > that depend on Python, and file bugs for all packages that don't have a > correct, explicit versioned dependency on python-base like > > Depends: python-base (>= 1.5), python-base (<< 1.6) > > or > > Depends: python2-base (>= 2.0), python2-base (<< 2.1) > Hmmm.... is the implication of this that every package will still need to be customised to know which /usr/lib/python-XXX to use? Is this the approach that maintainers are taking? If so, would it not perhaps make more sense to have python packages detect the version of /usr/bin/python at build time, and adjust themselves accordingly? The only problem would be the need for a shlibdeps equivalent or whatever.... -- Peter Eckersley http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/~pde (pde@cs.mu.oz.au) TLI: http://www.computerbank.org.au <~~~~.sig temporarily conservative pending divine intervention~~~~> GPG fingerprint: 30BF 6A78 2013 DCFA 5985 E255 9D31 4A9A 7574 65BC
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