On Tue, Sep 12, 2006 at 09:44:14AM +0100, Sam Morris wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-09-12 at 01:41 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
> > > Presumably the severity of this bug can be lowered now that python (>=
> > > 2.4) has hit testing.

> > This is true, but for a rather arcane reason only: smart-notifier depends on
> > python2.4-dbus, which only exists now in the archive as a virtual package
> > provided by python-dbus, which depends on python (>= 2.4), thus ensuring
> > that for any user upgrading from sarge, python 2.4 will be installed and
> > configured before smart-notifier is.

> Maybe not... I still see a python2.4-dbus in testing:
> <packages.debian.org/python2.4-dbus>. Or doesn't this matter because it
> no longer exists in unstable?

The reason it doesn't matter is that the new version of dbus has about 100
packages blocked behind it, so it's not an option to leave the old version
in etch for release. :)

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