Bug#630787: marked as done (I can not update/install morituri because of a syntaxerror)

Jonas Smedegaard dr at jones.dk
Tue Jun 28 11:51:13 UTC 2011


On 11-06-28 at 01:34pm, Fabian Greffrath wrote:
> Am 17.06.2011 14:21, schrieb Debian Bug Tracking System:
> >Use aptitude.  Aptitude is your friend. Always use aptitude as your 
> >package manager.
> >
> >Do not use apt-get - it is less clever than aptitude.
> >
> >Do not use GUI tools - they are unavailable in emergency situations 
> >where you cannot start X11.
> 
> Sorry, Jonas, I this advice is IMHO crap and not related to the actual 
> bug report at all.
> 
> If morituri fails to run with specificversions of the python runtime, 
> then this should be documented somewhere in the packaging, e.g. using 
> X-Python-Version in debian/control, see 
> <http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/python-policy/ch-module_packages.html#s-specifying_versions>.

Morituri works with all versions of Python provided in Debian unstable, 
testing, stable and oldstable.  I find it unreasonable to hint about 
Python version other than those.


 - Jonas

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