Re: python 2.4?
Steve Langasek writes:
> On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 10:03:15AM +0530, Ganesan Rajagopal wrote:
> > >>>>> 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?
The advantage to have extensions for the python version you switch
from and for the version you switch to is: you don't need an upload
for the transition, potentially adding dependencies on new library
packages.
Matthias
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