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Re: Packaging, supporting both 2.1 and 2.2



On Wed, 22 May 2002, Bastian Kleineidam <reflexionsniveau@web.de> wrote:

> There is a package called python-central which allows version-independent
> packages.
> http://people.debian.org/~calvin/python-central/
> Precondition: you have a "pure" pyhthon module, no C-compiled Extension.

Sorry, the situation in the non-hypothetical case does involve an
extension.

> a) python2.1-foo: python foo.py module for 2.1
> b) python2.2-foo: python foo.py module for 2.2
> c) python-foo: /usr/bin/foo binary with #!/usr/bin/python
>    Depends: python2.1-foo | python2.2-foo

Doesn't work.
What if the user installed python2.2-foo but /usr/bin/python
is /usr/bin/python2.1, or vice versa?
If this is what python-central does, then python-central, I'm afraid,
has a bug...


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