I cc'd the maintainers on the last message so hopefully they will comment.

On 24 January 2011 15:54, Jason Stelzer <[email protected]> wrote:
> I imagine it's rooted in the dependencies here
> http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/libapache2-mod-wsgi-py3
>
> and is carried over to here
> http://packages.ubuntu.com/maverick/libapache2-mod-wsgi
>
> FWIW on my debian testing box, apt-cache show libapache2-mod-wsgi
> cynic@debian:~$ apt-cache show libapache2-mod-wsgi
> Package: libapache2-mod-wsgi
> Priority: optional
> Section: httpd
> Installed-Size: 416
> Maintainer: Debian Python Modules Team
> <[email protected]>
> Architecture: amd64
> Source: mod-wsgi
> Version: 3.3-1
> Provides: httpd-wsgi
> Depends: apache2, apache2.2-common, libc6 (>= 2.3.4), libpython2.6 (>=
> 2.6), python (>= 2.5), python (<< 2.7)
> Suggests: apache2-mpm-worker | apache2-mpm-event
> Filename: pool/main/m/mod-wsgi/libapache2-mod-wsgi_3.3-1_amd64.deb
>
>
> cynic@debian:~$ dpkg -l|grep libpython
> ii  libpython2.6                          2.6.6-8+b1
>     Shared Python runtime library (version 2.6)
>
> Now, I didn't use the dependency to pull in python. I had python
> installed before I asked for mod_wsgi and it seems to be working out
> all right with my 2.6 install.
>
> I spun up a fresh vm with a brand new 10.10 64 bit install, when I
> install mod_wsgi it is indeed pulling in python3.1.
>
> Python2.6 is already installed. This is not how it worked on the
> debian box, so this is most certainly a canonical bug.
>
> The depends line from apt-cache show on the package name indicated it
> should be requiring a min version of 2.6.
>
> The way the debian/rules file is written if you do an apt-build on the
> package doesn't have obvious (to me) errors.
>
> It looks like ubuntu is tracking the debian package, and this issue
> may exist in sid. I can confirm that this is indeed happening and you
> may want to get in touch [email protected]
>
>
>
> On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 11:00 PM, Graham Dumpleton
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Can someone explain to me why someone when trying to install mod_wsgi
>> on ubuntu 10.10 would see:
>>
>> $ sudo apt-get install libapache2-mod-wsgi
>> Reading package lists... Done
>> Building dependency tree
>> Reading state information... Done
>> The following extra packages will be installed:
>>  libpython3.1 python3.1 python3.1-minimal
>> Suggested packages:
>>  python3.1-doc python3.1-profiler binfmt-support
>> The following NEW packages will be installed:
>>  libapache2-mod-wsgi libpython3.1 python3.1 python3.1-minimal
>> 0 upgraded, 4 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded.
>> Need to get 6,275kB of archives.
>> After this operation, 20.9MB of additional disk space will be used.
>> Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
>>
>> Why is it wanting to drag down Python 3.1?
>>
>> Has someone screwed up package in repository or have they done stupid
>> thing of not naming Python 3.1 variant of package differently.
>>
>> The person on #python confident they are pointing at non standard 
>> repositories.
>>
>> Graham
>>
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