Re: XS-Python-Version vs pyversions

[Bernd Zeimetz <bernd@bzed.de>]

Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Le mardi 08 septembre 2009 à 19:06 +0200, Piotr Ożarowski a écrit : 
>>> Since the build-dep approach should have agreement from all the helper
>>> maintainers before it moves forward, I think it would be a good first
>>> step to mark pyversions deprecated (initially in favor of XS-* and
>>> later in favor of the build depends approach) and leave it up to
>>> package maintainers if they care to change in the near term.
>> how about using build dependencies *if* pyversions and XS-P-V are not
>> set and removing support of these fields once all packages will
>> use the new approach?
> 
> I think that’s the most efficient approach indeed. For that, we need to
> either: 
>       * patch /usr/bin/pyversions to use them instead 
>       * or introduce a new script that does this, and get cdbs and dh7
>         to use it instead

If there is really a consensus about that, it would not be too hard to implement
it in dh directly.


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