Re: Summary of python transition problems
On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 10:55:54AM +1000, Donovan Baarda wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-10-08 at 03:28, Matthias Klose wrote:
> > It does help for python applications, which depend on an explicit
> > python version. I did not count packages with a 'python2.3 (>= 2.3)'
> > dependency.
>
> I would argue that using a versioned depends like "Depends: python2.3
> (>=2.3)" is a bad idea. What does the extra version info give you in
> this case?
>
> The only reason to put a version on a "pythonX.Y" dependency would be if
> you know there was a particular version of pythonX.Y that your package
> doesn't work with.
The versioned dependency is probably generated automatically by
dpkg-shlibdeps:
$ cat /var/lib/dpkg/info/python2.3.shlibs
libpython2.3 1.0 python2.3 (>= 2.3)
I assume that this means binaries compiled against current python2.3
aren't guaranteed to work with prereleases.
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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