On January 14, 2023 7:12:33 PM UTC, Stefano Rivera <stefa...@debian.org> wrote:
>Hi Scott (2023.01.14_17:22:42_+0000)
>> Take the example in #1027947. If this proposal had been in place
>> already, what would he have been the generated dependency and how
>> would it have worked?
>
>dh_python3 would have been able to generate
>python3-tomli | python3-min-version (>= 3.11)
>
>instead of
>python3-tomli | python3 (>> 3.11)
>
>Then, once python3.10 was dropped from supported, python3 would
>Provides: python3-min-version (= 3.11), python3-max-version (= 3.11)
>
>The >= vs >> isn't particularly relevant here. At the moment python3 (>> 3.11)
>effectively means >= 3.11, because it's always 3.11.something-something.
And python3-min-version is a virtual package, so dpgk doesn't need any special
knowledge to do the right thing, right? I think that's reasonable.
Typically though doesn't the python interpreter package provide modules that
are now incorporated? If python3.11 provides python3-tomli, won't that mess
this up?
Scott K
