Package: python
Version: 2.4.4-1
Severity: serious
Hi,
(This is arguably a bug in python-support, but this is the first
directly responsible package for the change, I'm opening the RC here.)
If you try to:
1) install python-gtk2 (or any python-support-ized package)
2) install python2.3
you do not end up having the python2.3 bindings for gtk2.
It seems that python-central and python-support differ in
implementation of the "rtinstall" runtime.d script. python-central
will rebuild for the runtime passed as an argument, while
python-support will rebuild for all supported runtimes. Since the
current pyversions does not return python2.3 anymore, python-support
does not build for python2.3.
I've found the following snippet in python-support:
# Get the version list from pyversions
py_supported = os.popen("pyversions -s").readline().rstrip().split()
py_installed = os.popen("pyversions -i").readline().rstrip().split()
py_supported_short = [ a.replace("python","") for a in py_supported ]
py_oldversions = ['python2.1','python2.2']
but I have no idea whether it's relevant. The list of versions is a
little bit scary.
Cc:ing the python-support maintainer.
Everybody please comment. My personal feeling is that we should
enhance the documentation of pyversions and rtinstall to not let the
choice of what to build to the implementation.
Bye,
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Versions of packages python depends on:
ii python-minimal 2.4.4-1 A minimal subset of the Python lan
ii python2.4 2.4.4-1 An interactive high-level object-o
python recommends no packages.
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