Re: dependencies of non-module packages

[Tollef Fog Heen <tollef@add.no>]

*  (Donovan Baarda)

| After going through your options I can see why the Mailman mantainer was
| complaining in more detail. The first option is the most attractive for a
| script-with-modules package. However to make this really attractive the
| default python package should run "dpkg-reconfigure" for all installed
| packages depending on "python" in it's postinst script when the default
| version of python is upgraded.
| 
| I'd like to recommend this behaviour, in conjunction with python-central
| support, to become standard.
| 
| Note that rpm packages support the concept of "trigger scripts", that
| presumably would allow you to do things like have dput recompile its
| own modules when python is upgraded. dpkg doesn't support this, and until
| now I could not see how it would be useful.

Until dpkg supports triggers, I think what the emacsen does it the
most sane -- I'd be really, really happy if python modules/apps were
done in the same way. :)

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