Re: New python policy
Steve Langasek writes:
> On Fri, Jun 02, 2006 at 11:50:53AM -0500, Joe Wreschnig wrote:
> > On Fri, 2006-06-02 at 12:52 +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> > > * the dependencies (hopefully created automatically by dh_python) will
> > > indicate the right interval automatically:
> > > right now for example it would be "python (>=2.3), python (<< 2.5)"
> > > for a package saying "XC-Python-Version: all"
>
> > What's the point of such a tight upper dependency? The whole idea was to
> > reduce the work for transitions, this still requires a rebuild when we
> > upgrade to Python 2.5 (or in fact, whenever the supported versions of
> > Python change).
>
> > Such information is necessary for extensions, but irrelevant for
> > programs or other modules.
>
> Indeed, the intent was that this strict upper bound would apply to
> extensions, not to modules. Not sure if that intent got lost somewhere
> along the way.
IIRC We did conclude that we need the Provides: pythonX.Y-foo for
modules as well and have to regenerate this information if we change
the set of supported python versions.
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