On Sun, Jun 04, 2006 at 11:44:00PM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: > > 4) python2.x-* virtual packages are to be used only when necessary, but > > packages can provide them regardless. > you don't know in advance, if they are necessary. Not a problem, if > they are generated. No, but they can be added on demand. The difference is merely a pair of additional substitutions in the Depends and Provides fields. Adding them where they *aren't* known to be needed by reverse dependencies does make transitions more brittle than they need to be -- at least in the possible case of an overlap between a removal of one python version and an addition of another. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. vorlon@debian.org http://www.debian.org/
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