Pepe Barbe wrote:
> On Aug 12, 2008, at 12:25 PM, Alexander Hansen wrote:
>
>   
>> What if a package has python-versioned dependencies, but does not  
>> itself build public python modules (e.g. a user-executable  
>> application)?  Should we just pick a single python flavor in such  
>> cases?  This comes up occasionally with tracker submissions.
>>     
>
> There are some programs whose main executable can be renamed to exec- 
> py25, for example. If it's as simple as that, in my opinion, then it  
> should be done.
>   
And this does get done fairly often, along with using 
update-alternatives to allow users to select which one to default to.  A 
followup question would be whether we should use -pyXY for the package 
name, or have something to differentiate such packages from modules.
> If having a versioned package would require doing more complicated  
> stuff, like modifying the source code itself. Then I say we shouldn't.
>
> Pepe
>
>   

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