On Thu, Sep 09, 2010 at 09:29:40AM +0200, Vincent Bernat wrote:
> OoO En ce doux début de  matinée du jeudi 09 septembre 2010, vers 08:59,
> Lionel Elie Mamane <lio...@mamane.lu> disait :

>>> You  have a system  with mixed  stable/testing/unstable. Since  you took
>>> python2.6 from squeeze, please  also use python-nevow from squeeze. This
>>> should work.

>> The package relationship (Depends, Conflicts, Breaks, ...) fields are
>> supposed to express these relationships. (Debian Policy chapter 7)

> Mixing distributions  is on your  own responsability. We  cannot express
> relationship that were  not needed on the time of  the release. Take any
> Python   package,   take   python-central/python-support  from   stable,
> python2.6 from unstable along with python-defaults from unstable and you
> have something that does not work  at all because the paths have changed
> and a newer python-central/python-support is needed here.

That's why python2.6-minimal has

Breaks: python-central (<< 0.6.14)

That's how one can and does "express relationship that were  not
needed on the time of  the release".

-- 
Lionel



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