On Mon, Jun 05, 2006 at 12:24:19AM +0200, Marc Dequènes wrote: > >> 3) The tight upper bound on module dependencies will be removed, > >> provided the module actually works on future versions of Python. The > >> upper bound on extension dependencies will not, because then they > >> wouldn't work. > I don't see any reason to keep this boundary, really, as you plan to use > binNMUs on transitions. Either the extension does not work on a newly > uploaded python version after being binNMU-ed, then this is a bug (not > grave), or you use a boundary for an extension which would have worked > perfectly and this is a bug too. No. An extension has to be separately *compiled* for each python version it's to support. A python-foo package containing /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/foo/foo.so and /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/foo/foo.so must not claim to be compatible with python (>= 2.5). However, it *should* be possible to provide a toolchain such that this python-foo can be binNMUed when python-2.5 becomes available and automatically pick up support for it. -- 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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