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Re: Bug#383958: lintian: python-script-but-no-python-dep error with python-support



Le lun 21 août 2006 02:30, Russ Allbery a écrit :
> [ Resending to get the right address -- sorry about that. ]
>
> Cameron Dale <camrdale@gmail.com> writes:
> > Package: lintian
> > Version: 1.23.22
> > Severity: wishlist
> >
> > Lintian generates python-script-but-no-python-dep errors for
> > binary packages depending on python-support (which depends on
> > python). These dependencies are sufficient and are generated
> > automatically by the dh_pysupport debhelper script.
> >
> > I asked on debian-python and they said this was a bug in
> > lintian and not in python-support:
> >
> > http://lists.debian.org/debian-python/2006/08/msg00098.html
>
> I don't think I agree with this.
>
> [snip]
>
> If it's really the intention that python-support will always provide
> a Python interpreter, that should be added to its long description so
> that there's documentation that this is an invariant and a promise
> that won't be changed later.

python-support is written in python (same is true for python-central) 
and will *always* depend upon 'python'
-- 
·O·  Pierre Habouzit
··O                                                madcoder@debian.org
OOO                                                http://www.madism.org

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