Missing Provides in python-crypto and others

[Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>]

Hi,

I noticed that python-crypto had undergone the new Python Policy
transition thanks to a NMU from Matthias Klose [1]. However, I could not
update to this version, since python2.4-paramiko Depends: python2.4-crypto,
but the new python-crypto package does not provide it.

  [1] http://packages.qa.debian.org/p/python-crypto/news/20060616T020207Z.html

I thought such Provides field was mandatory under the new policy, and
although I failed to find this requirement in the policy itself [2],
it's set pretty straightforwardly in item #5 of the NewPolicy wiki page [3].

  [2] http://people.debian.org/~piman/python-policy/python-policy.txt
  [3] http://wiki.debian.org/DebianPython/NewPolicy

I prepared a python-crypto NMU to fix this, but before uploading I had a look
at the archive and saw that several other packages seem to suffer the same,
which made me doubt of myself having understood the issue correctly. (I'm
attaching a list of those I found; I left out python-twisted-*, and others
that my grep-dctrl search may have missed).

Can somebody clear the issue for me? Thanks.

-- 
Adeodato Simó                                     dato at net.com.org.es
Debian Developer                                  adeodato at debian.org
 
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Package: python-albatross
Version: 1.33-3
Conflicts: python2.3-albatross (<< 1.33-3), python2.4-albatross (<< 1.33-3)
Python-Version: all
Provides: 

Package: python-cherrypy
Version: 2.2.1-3
Conflicts: python2.4-cherrypy2.1 (<= 2.1.1-1), python2.3-cherrypy2.1 (<= 2.1.1-1)
Python-Version: all
Provides: 

Package: python-crypto
Version: 2.0.1+dfsg1-1.1
Conflicts: python2.3-crypto, python2.4-crypto
Python-Version: 2.4, 2.3
Provides: 

Package: python-cxx
Version: 5.3.5-2
Conflicts: python2.3-cxx, python2.4-cxx
Python-Version: 2.3, 2.4
Provides: 

Package: python-formencode
Version: 0.5.1-2
Conflicts: python2.3-formencode (<< 0.5.1), python2.4-formencode (<< 0.5.1)
Python-Version: 2.4, 2.3
Provides: 

Package: python-gadfly
Version: 1.0.0-10
Conflicts: python-kjbuckets (<< 1.0.0-9), python2.3-gadfly, python2.4-gadfly
Python-Version: all
Provides: 

Package: python-htmltmpl
Version: 1.22-10
Conflicts: python2.3-htmltmpl (<< 1.22-8), python2.4-htmltmpl (<< 1.22-8)
Python-Version: all
Provides: 

Package: python-kjbuckets
Version: 1:1.0.0-10
Conflicts: python2.3-kjbuckets, python2.4-kjbuckets
Python-Version: all
Provides: 

Package: python-numarray
Version: 1.5.1-4
Conflicts: python2.3-numarray, python2.4-numarray, python-numarray-ext (<< 1.5.1-3)
Python-Version: 2.4, 2.3
Provides: 

Package: python-numarray-ext
Version: 1.5.1-4
Conflicts: python2.3-numarray-ext, python2.4-numarray-ext
Python-Version: 2.4, 2.3
Provides: 

Package: python-optcomplete
Version: 1.2-5
Conflicts: python2.3-optcomplete (<< 1.2-5), python2.4-optcomplete (<< 1.2-5), optcomplete-common (<< 1.2-5)
Python-Version: all
Provides: 

Package: python-sqlobject
Version: 0.7.0-3
Conflicts: python2.3-sqlobject, python2.4-sqlobject
Python-Version: all
Provides: 

Package: xbel-utils
Version: 0.8.4-5
Conflicts: xbel-utils-0.6
Python-Version: all
Provides: 

Package: xmldiff
Version: 0.6.8-2
Conflicts: python2.3-xmldiff
Python-Version: 2.3
Provides: