Re: Bug#385909: pyversions: command not found

[floris.bruynooghe@gmail.com (Floris Bruynooghe)]

On Mon, Sep 04, 2006 at 09:16:59AM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> On Mon, 04 Sep 2006, Steve Langasek wrote:
> > > Pyversions is mainly used at build-time and not at installation time.
> > > Whatever requires pyversions (and in this case python-gnome2) should be
> > > depending on the first version of python that provides it (and now the
> > > good question: how do you do that while still using ${python:Depends}?).
> > 
> > By depending on python (>= 2.3.5-6), ${python:Depends}, which will duplicate
> > a dependency but still work?
> 
> Yes and generate an annoying lintian warning. :)

Or by making dh_python (or whatever we'll end up using) check if an
adequate dependency is already there and not generate a duplicate
one.  Which would then have to fail if the other dependency conflicts
with what dh_python does think it should be.  :)

Seriously, this might be useful for the little library that Raphael
proposed for the shared dependency generation.

Regards
Floris

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