Re: Bug#221523: Causes build failures

[Matthias Klose <doko@cs.tu-berlin.de>]

Junichi Uekawa writes:
> Package: python2.3
> Version: 2.3.2-3
> 
> python2.3 (2.3.2-3) unstable; urgency=low
> 
>   * Downgrade the dependency of python2.3 on python (>= 2.3) to
>     a recommendation.
> 
> this seems to have caused buildds to fail because 'python' does not 
> exist when building packages build-depending on python2.3-dev
> 
> For example:
> 
> http://buildd.debian.org/fetch.php?&pkg=ecasound2.2&ver=2.3.0-4&arch=hppa&stamp=1069186627&file=log&as=raw

well, I think this is bug in these packages. OTOH, if there are too
many of these, it might be better to change it back. I did never see
much sense in keeping pythonX.Y without keeping python.

> and this also causes missing symlinks in /usr/share/doc/python2.3/*

ok, will fix these ...