Re: Questions about the Debian Python Policy

["Martin v. Löwis" <martin@v.loewis.de>]

James A. Treacy wrote:
> Let's use gramps(*) as an example and that the default python switches
> to 2.4. A user upgrades python (leaving 2.3 on the system), gramps and
> python-glade2 to python 2.4 versions but does not ugrade python-gnome2
> (this works since python 2.3 is still installed). All the dependencies
> will be met but gramps will not work as it will not find all the
> required (2.4 based) dependencies.

No, this cannot happen. python-gnome2 depends on

  python (>= 2.3), python (<< 2.4)

so when python becomes 2.4, it will be uninstallable on the system,
unless python-gnome2 is removed.

Only when all python-foo packages are available in a version that
depends on python (>=2.4), python (<<2.5), only then the system can
upgrade the Python installation.

The answers to your other questions, I don't know. I think it is ok
to install to site-python, and to use python to compile the byte-code
files, but I'm uncertain what will trigger recompilation of those
modules when python is upgraded to 2.5.

Regards,
Martin