On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 03:38:34PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 01:02:12PM +0100, Ross Burton wrote: > > "doclifter was written under Python 2.2a1. It will not work under > > Python 1.5.2, and may not work under 2.1. Upgrade, it will be good for > > you." > > IMO this means that RMS had used some features that aren't available in > versions earlier than 2.2. > Now that standard python version in debian is 2.2, you can safely > depends on python >= 2.2 and python << 2.3, or even better if the app is > fully python on python and nothing more.
Please still use at least 'python (>= 2.2)' (I don't know the details of the Python policy, but something with that kind of effect), to help people trying to work out how to backport packages to stable. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
