Re: current python-only packages and new policy

[Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>]

Hi,

On Thu, 06 Jul 2006, Mike Hommey wrote:
> I'm writing because the New Policy is not very verbose on building a
> package for only the current version of python.
> 
> First, why would i need to build-dep on python-all-dev when python-dev
> is enough ?

You don't need to build-dep on python-all-dev if you build only for the
current version.

> Second, why would i need to use python-central or python-support when
> there's only one supported version of python ?

Because they will re-bytecompile the .py files when the curren python
version changes (but this is only useful for packages without extension of
course).

Cheers,
-- 
Raphaël Hertzog

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