Re: python 2.4?

[Ganesan Rajagopal <rganesan@myrealbox.com>]

>>>>> Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> writes:

> In short, the main decision has been to drop entirely python2.x-foo
> packages. They will, however, be provided as virtual packages, but only
> if something actually needs them.

> ...

> For C extensions, it was decided to build them for all available python
> versions in a single python-foo package. For example, currently we have
> python2.3 and python2.4. The package would
> contain /usr/lib/python2.[34]/site-packages/foo.so and depend on 
> "python (>= 2.3), python (<< 2.5)". The python-all-dev package will be
> used to build this.

Hmm, seems a bit backward to me. What if I don't have python2.3 installed at
all. What's the point in keeping /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/foo.so
around? 

Ganesan

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Ganesan Rajagopal