Re: Fun with python-apt
On Sat, Jun 14, 2003 at 05:46:51PM -0400, Anthony DeRobertis wrote:
> On Saturday, Jun 14, 2003, at 01:40 US/Eastern, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> >
> >If you had wanted to find out the answer before sending this to
> >debian-devel, you would not have had to look very far.
> >bugs.debian.org/python-apt has the answer three times over.
> >
> >http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=193566
>
> My two questions were:
> 1) Why did dpkg-buildpackage wind up compiling with the wrong
> compiler? Isn't there a C++ transition plan that should
> prevent that.
python-apt will, by default, use the default compiler on your system. Why
would it do anything else?
> 2) Is there are better way to tell Python's building stuff
> which compiler to use?
I do not know of a straightforward way.
> As far as (1), I ensured that all the build-time dependencies, as well as
> build-essential, were satisfied. According to Policy 2.4.2, it should
> work. It didn't.
According to 2.4.2, the package should build correctly. It did. However,
it didn't run because you had an incompatible version of apt installed. The
dependency system does not have a facility to handle this situation.
> I do not believe 193566 comes anywhere near close to answering either of
> those questions. I also described a procedure that will get
> apt-listchanges working again.
It explains that python-apt in testing is broken, and no new version of
python-apt will get into testing until the new apt does, and that won't
happen until its RC bugs are fixed.
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- mdz
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