Bug#741556: playonlinux: depend on python instead of python:all

[Vincent Cheng]

Control: tag -1 - patch
(There doesn't seem to be a patch attached to the bug report...)

On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 12:39 PM, Alad Wenter
<the.changing.side at gmail.com> wrote:
> Package: playonlinux
> Version: 4.2.2-1
> Severity: minor
> Tags: patch
>
> Dear maintainer,
>
> The current version of playonlinux in wheezy is 4.1.1-1, but 4.2.2-1 from
> testing/sid has no additional dependencies on testing/sid packages.
>
> However the dependency on python (>= 2.6.6-7~) was changed to python:any (>=
> 2.6.6-7~), which results in a "Virtual package" conflict. Changing it back in
> debian/control allows to install the package without upgrading libc6 et al.
>
> I couldn't find a mention on this in the changelog, hence the question.

The python dependency is most likely automatically generated by
dh_python2, so it's not a change made to playonlinux that caused this.

The correct way of fixing this is to not install packages from
testing/sid on wheezy, but to prepare a backport [1] of that package
and ask for a sponsor on debian-backports and/or debian-mentors.

Regards,
Vincent

[1] http://backports.debian.org/Contribute/