"Josselin Mouette" <j...@debian.org> wrote:
>Le mercredi 23 juin 2010 à 21:17 -0400, Scott Kitterman a écrit : >> >5. End this madness and use the version in build-dependencies instead of >> >asking maintainers to specify it twice - which they usually do wrong. >> > >> With this approach then with the current python-defaults in Sid, how would >> one specify works with 2.5 and 2.6, but not 2.7? >> >> b-d python{-all} (>= 2.5), python{-all} (=< 2.7) >> >> Since a python-all version of 2.6 may at different times reflect b-d on 2.5, >> 2.6, and/or 2.7 versions, this isn't clear to me. > >Indeed, but I doubt this is a real problem. > >> Also how does that intersect with needing specific package features to >> build (e.g python-all (>= 2.6.5-2~) because I switched from >> python-central to dh_python2)? >> >> I'd love to just specify it once if we can do it in a reasonably >> non-convoluted and complete way. > >Then at the very least, make your X-Whatever-Ugly-Hack opt-in instead of >requiring it. > If there is concurrence from the release team that there is no need to expose this externally then I don't see a need to require it. It would be part of a tool set, but up to the package maintainer if they use it. Scott K -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-python-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/e318c32f-76fb-43ce-9e5b-9985f0392...@email.android.com