Re: New python policy

[Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org>]

Le vendredi 02 juin 2006 à 12:52 +0200, Raphael Hertzog a écrit :
> For applications:
> * if they use /usr/bin/python, they should simply depend on python-foo
>   modules that they use.
> * if they use /usr/bin/python2.X, they should depend on python2.X-foo
>   modules that they use.

And on python2.X, as python2.X-foo will not necessarily depend on
python2.X in the future.

> For private modules (not sure here):
> * no change except that they can also use XC-Python-Version to get
>   a good python dependency automatically

Private modules can be handled by python-support to avoid having a
strict dependency on python (>= 2.3), python (<< 2.4).
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