On Mon, 2011-01-31 at 16:24 +0000, Brian Gough wrote: > At Sat, 29 Jan 2011 00:51:50 -0500, > Luke Shumaker wrote: > > This updates to the latest non-beta release of Bazaar, and adds Python, > > which is needed by Bazaar. > > > > For Bazaar, GPG currently gives back a message about the public key not > > being found. > > > > For Python, I cannot figure out how to fetch the sig file (see the > > Makefile for info). The public keys for Python are at > > Thanks for the Bazaar patch. > > I've been reluctant to add Python as a full dependency, due to its > size and the fact that most people will have it installed already. > > I think we really need some kind of mechanism to specify system > packages like python-dev and tell the user to "apt-get install > python-dev" (or whatever is appropriate on their system) if needed.
I've been thinking about a system to tag a package as installed by another source, and to treat it as successfully installed. This gives me two questions: 1) Would you accept such a patch? 2) Would I have to maintain compatibility with existing `.gar/', `cookies/' and such? Not that I plan on breaking it, but it will probably affect design decisions. -- ~ LukeShu http://lukeshu.ath.cx
