Re: Bug#302295: python should use the alternatives mechanism
Ralph Giles writes:
> On Sun, Apr 03, 2005 at 03:44:47PM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote:
>
> > no, because you cannot assure, that all modules installed in one
> > version are installed on the other version as well.
>
> So because debian packages don't track python module dependencies
> correctly,
incorrect. if there's such a package, please file a bug report.
> I must write my scripts to hardwire the specific name of
> debian's versioned python?
if you want to use a python version, which is not the default one,
yes.
> How does that fulfill the social contract?
sorry, the social contract doesn't tell anything about screwing about
your system.
> Even if alternatives isn't appropriate, some mechanism is needed.
> There must be some way to tell the packaging system which python
> one wants by default, and hand-editing a symlink after every upgrade
> is just wrong.
correct, that's wrong. call the specific version in this case.
Matthias
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