Le lun 21 août 2006 03:53, Russ Allbery a écrit : > Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org> writes: > > python-support is written in python (same is true for > > python-central) and will *always* depend upon 'python' > > Maybe some examples to illustrate will help. It may not be entirely > clear why the above statement doesn't actually resolve the problem. > > [snip] > > Let me turn this around: what advantage is there to the current > approach? Why would you ever want a package containing a Python > script to depend on python-support and *not* python? Is this just > saving eight bytes in the Depends field, and if so, is that really > worth it for, say, not being able to locate all packages that depend > on Python by simply looking for packages that depend on Python > (rather than having to also factor in packages that use transitive > dependencies)? that's indeed a fair question, maybe python-support should not be too clever and let 'python' be explicitely listed, even if it's *currently* not needed. Also note that if versionned depends are needed (like a python (>= X.Y)) it is obviously added, so that "problem" hits only arch:all packages that do not need a specific python version... Maybe Joss will have more insight about that. -- ·O· Pierre Habouzit ··O madcoder@debian.org OOO http://www.madism.org
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