[Philipp Wollermann] > may I ask why this patch wasn't applied yet? I have set the default > version of python for my system to python2.5 and wanted to use trac, > however python-subversion is only usable with python2.4 ...
Last I heard, the default Python version is not configurable in Debian; it is controlled by the 'python' wrapper package (from a source package called 'python-defaults'). If you patch and rebuild 'python-defaults' to change your default, you will also need to rebuild some of your python module packages. In most cases, including subversion, you can just rebuild the package with no source changes. ...But your question is why I haven't applied the Ubuntu patch. Have you looked at it? It adds a _lot_ of complexity, and the main benefit is to support an action (changing your default python version) that isn't supported in Debian anyway. So that is why not. -- Peter Samuelson | org-tld!p12n!peter | http://p12n.org/
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