Re: More updates for the policy
* Raphael Hertzog (hertzog@debian.org) [060620 01:02]:
> On Mon, 19 Jun 2006, Andreas Barth wrote:
> > > I only know two reasons for those headers:
> > > - python-central use them for its internal work
> > > - it may help track a transition and discover which packages need to be
> > > updated
> > >
> > > BTW, the syntax of the Python-Version field comes directly from
> > > python-central and it has not been discussed if the current syntax is the
> > > best needed to achieve the second point.
> >
> > Obviously, nobody hit by the second purpose (which includes me) has any
> > issue with the current syntax. Otherwise, I would have said something.
>
> You expressed concerns on the syntax on IRC. Because the "," means "or" in somes
> cases like "2.1, 2.2" and it means "and" in some other cases ">= 2.2, << 2.5".
This was never a concern about the usability for the second purpose.
> Also if the field describes the list of python versions that the package
> can work with, then the "current" value has no meaning... current exists
> only to let the maintainer build only for the current python version.
> Which is orthogonal to the meaning of the field.
current means something and IMHO it's at the right place.
Cheers,
Andi
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