Re: python 2.4?

[Ganesan Rajagopal <rganesan@myrealbox.com>]

>>>>> Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org> writes:

>> That much is obvious. The point is wouldn't it be confusing to the user to
>> call the package python-ctypes when it doesn't support the current python
>> version? Oh well, I guess I can put in something in the description to
>> explain this.

> A package named python-ctypes must support the current python version: it
> must ensure this by having a versioned dependency on the versions of python
> that it is compatible with.

> That means that if python-ctypes only supports python (<< 2.5), and python
> is at Version: 2.5.0-1, python-ctypes will not be installable (and will need
> to be updated).

This is exactly my point. There will be no python-ctypes supporting python
>= 2.5. That's why I am arguing that there needs to policy exceptions to
allow a package named python2.4-ctypes. Josselin seems to think different.

Ganesan

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Ganesan Rajagopal