Re: Upload of new Python extension packages

[Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org>]

Le jeudi 30 juin 2005 à 18:20 -0700, Donovan Baarda a écrit :
> I suggest (a bit out of the blue, in no way yet endorsed by anyone) have
> two source packages;
> 
> pythonX.Y-foo (where X.Y is really "X.Y", not "2.3") that generates the
> multiple binary packages python2.2-foo, python2.3-foo, python2.4-foo,
> etc. It should build depend on each corresponding python2.2-dev,
> python2.3-dev, python2.4-dev etc.
> 
> python-foo, which generates the single dummy binary package python-foo
> with the appropriate dependencies to tie it to the current default
> python.

This is complete overkill. Which problems would it actually solve?

For most python packages, a single source and binary should be enough.
No more.
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