Bug#193566: python-apt: depends on python (>= 2.1), python (<< 2.2), should depend on python2.1

[Randy Orrison <randy@orrison.com>]

On Sat, May 17, 2003 at 07:17:21PM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
| On Sat, May 17, 2003 at 11:03:53PM +0100, Randy Orrison wrote:
| > Yes, I understand that.  I see that as a problem... If it needs one
| > version or the other, and the separate versions are both available as
| > separate packages, shouldn't it depend on the version it needs?  Since I
| > have the version it needs installed, why can't it work?
| 
| A package which uses python-apt will depend on python and python-apt.  If
| python is not the version for which python-apt is built, the depending
| package will not have python-apt available even if it depends on it.

Ok.  And that package doesn't want to have to depend on a particular version
of either.  I get it.  Thanks.

Randy