Re: Proposed Email to the release team about XS/B-P-V

[Scott Kitterman <debian@kitterman.com>]

"Josselin Mouette" <joss@debian.org> wrote:

>Le mercredi 23 juin 2010 à 13:15 -0400, Scott Kitterman a écrit :
>> 1.  Use XS/B-P-V for Python and Python3 versions
>> 2.  Create a new set of fields, XS/B-Python3-Version.
>> 3.  Create a new field, X-Python-Version: for Python3 versions.
>> 4.  Create a new field, X-Python3-Version: for Python3 versions
>
>5. End this madness and use the version in build-dependencies instead of
>asking maintainers to specify it twice - which they usually do wrong.
>
With this approach then with the current python-defaults in Sid, how would one specify works with 2.5 and 2.6, but not 2.7?

b-d python{-all} (>= 2.5), python{-all} (=< 2.7)

Since a python-all version of 2.6 may at different times reflect b-d on 2.5, 2.6, and/or 2.7 versions, this isn't clear to me.

Also how does that intersect with needing specific package features to build (e.g python-all (>= 2.6.5-2~) because I switched from python-central to dh_python2)?

I'd love to just specify it once if we can do it in a reasonably non-convoluted and complete way.

Scott K