Re: Bug#302295: python should use the alternatives mechanism

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

Ralph Giles writes:
> On Sun, Apr 03, 2005 at 08:54:58PM +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.
> 
> Ok, I must have misunderstood. If the python packages used the 
> alternatives mechanism *and* tracked dependencies properly, why
> is there any problem with what modules are installed?

consider

  Package: baz
  Depends: python2.2 | python2.3, python2.2-foo | python2.3-foo, python2.2-bar | python2.3-bar

the dependencies are fullfilled installing python2.2-foo and python2.3-bar...