Re: Bug#221523: Causes build failures

2003-11-26 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Junichi Uekawa wrote: [ Please don't delete attributions ] Matthias Klose: some people wanted to be able to keep the default python version at version 2.2, but install packages from unstable, when the default versions were different in testing and unstable. I do doubt such special

Re: Bug#221523: Causes build failures

2003-11-26 Thread Donovan Baarda
On Sat, 2003-11-22 at 03:13, Josselin Mouette wrote: Le ven 21/11/2003 à 01:49, Donovan Baarda a écrit : Unfortunately, the policy fails to take into account all the source-package and build-depends issues. This means the clean separation of python and pythonX.Y is not actually that

Re: Bug#221523: Causes build failures

2003-11-21 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le ven 21/11/2003 à 01:49, Donovan Baarda a écrit : Unfortunately, the policy fails to take into account all the source-package and build-depends issues. This means the clean separation of python and pythonX.Y is not actually that clean... some more work is needed on the policy to resolve

Re: Bug#221523: Causes build failures

2003-11-20 Thread Florent Rougon
Junichi Uekawa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The configure script is checking for 'python' script. What was the original reason for the 'recommends' instead of 'depends'? It's not really clear to me. some people wanted to be able to keep the default python version at version 2.2, but

Re: Bug#221523: Causes build failures

2003-11-20 Thread Donovan Baarda
On Thu, 2003-11-20 at 09:16, Junichi Uekawa wrote: The configure script is checking for 'python' script. What was the original reason for the 'recommends' instead of 'depends'? It's not really clear to me. some people wanted to be able to keep the default python version at

Re: Bug#221523: Causes build failures

2003-11-19 Thread Matthias Klose
Junichi Uekawa writes: well, I think this is bug in these packages. OTOH, if there are too many of these, it might be better to change it back. I did never see much sense in keeping pythonX.Y without keeping python. The configure script is checking for 'python' script. What was the

Re: Bug#221523: Causes build failures

2003-11-19 Thread Junichi Uekawa
The configure script is checking for 'python' script. What was the original reason for the 'recommends' instead of 'depends'? It's not really clear to me. some people wanted to be able to keep the default python version at version 2.2, but install packages from unstable, when the

Re: Bug#221523: Causes build failures

2003-11-18 Thread Matthias Klose
Junichi Uekawa writes: Package: python2.3 Version: 2.3.2-3 python2.3 (2.3.2-3) unstable; urgency=low * Downgrade the dependency of python2.3 on python (= 2.3) to a recommendation. this seems to have caused buildds to fail because 'python' does not exist when building packages