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Re: gquilt: RC bug fix



On Sat, Feb 17, 2007 at 10:26:23AM -0500, A. Christine Spang wrote:

> I've just recently had my sponsor upload gquilt 0.17-3 to unstable. I'm
> requesting that it be granted a freeze exception for fixing RC bug
> #411198 (http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=411198).

- Why is the depends: on python (>= 2.4), (<= 2.5) hardcoded now, instead of
  being autopopulated from ${python:Depends} by way of XS-Python-Version:
  current?
- The bounds of the range are wrong -- python (<= 2.5) is satisfied by a
  version number of exactly 2.5, but that would be incompatible at the
  bytecode level...
- It would be nice if there were support for automatically recompiling
  bytecode for private modules when python is upgraded; but I guess that
  part of the proposed python policy didn't get spec'ed out in time?  Well,
  I guess it can be done with an rtupdate script, but that it's by no means
  required under current policy, ahwell.

Please address the first two points, at least; it's my understanding that
you shouldn't need to hard-code python versions at all in debian/control in
such a case as this, and in any case the range needs to be fixed.

Thanks,
-- 
Steve Langasek                   Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS
Debian Developer                   to set it on, and I can move the world.
vorlon@debian.org                                   http://www.debian.org/



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