Re: Bug#221523: Causes build failures
Junichi Uekawa writes:
> > 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.
>
> The configure script is checking for 'python' script.
>
> What was the original reason for the 'recommends' instead of
> 'depends'? It's not really clear to me.
some people wanted to be able to keep the default python version at
version 2.2, but install packages from unstable, when the default
versions were different in testing and unstable.
> The policy recommends using pythonx.x-dev for build-depends,
> and that implies one must call python via python2.3 etc. ?
>
> I'm not sure if I'm really comfortable with having to do that.
yes, that the consequence. Well, I don't like it either very
much. Maybe I'll change that back, unless nobody complains.
Matthias
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