Re: Bug#221523: Causes build failures
On Sat, 2003-11-22 at 03:13, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Le ven 21/11/2003 à 01:49, Donovan Baarda a écrit :
> > Unfortunately, the policy fails to take into account all the
> > source-package and build-depends issues. This means the clean separation
> > of python and pythonX.Y is not actually that clean... some more work is
> > needed on the policy to resolve these issues.
>
> It was already suggested to make a separate python-defaults source
> package, containing python, python-doc, python-dev, etc., just like
> gcc-defaults. This would solve all the aforementioned issues, and I
> don't see any reason not to do it.
+1
sounds good.
people using pythonX.Y-foo with a python-foo wrapper could also benefit
from this trick... perhaps it should be documented in the policy?
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Donovan Baarda <abo@minkirri.apana.org.au>
http://minkirri.apana.org.au/~abo/
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