[Python-modules-team] Bug#483197: Pre-depends are no solution

Josselin Mouette joss at debian.org
Thu Jul 24 07:52:00 UTC 2008


Le jeudi 24 juillet 2008 à 02:52 +0200, Bernd Zeimetz a écrit :
> > using Pre-Depends to fix this bug is not going to work. Furthermore, it
> > is a policy violation for having added it without discussion on
> > debian-devel.
> 
> right. And you obviously neither read the changelog entry properly, nor
> looked at the package.

Sorry, I indeed misread it, and the package had disappeared in the
mirror pulse at the time I was looking at it. (Well, you are wrong in
thinking Pre-Depends *would* fix the issue, but since you don’t use them
that’s fine :)

> > The real issue here is that pyversions is not reliable. 
> 
> Right. Did I ask you if you read the changelog entry?

Indeed. However this must be fixed before python2.6 enters the archive,
since it will break at this time.

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