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



Le mercredi 23 juin 2010 à 21:17 -0400, Scott Kitterman a écrit :
> >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.

Indeed, but I doubt this is a real problem.

> 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.

Then at the very least, make your X-Whatever-Ugly-Hack opt-in instead of
requiring it.

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