Re: python 2.4?

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

Ganesan Rajagopal writes:
> >>>>> 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.

I think, the name should be still python-ctypes, with the attributes:

Depends: python (>= 2.3), python (<< 2.6)
Python-Version: 2.3, 2.4

with the python2.5 package providing python2.5-ctypes. Same thing with
other modules, which are included in the python standard library.

  Matthias