I see my sid system has collected various python 2.1 and 2.2 packages, but no 2.3 packages. Couldn't there be a python metapackage that I could install to always keep python at its freshest, also saving disk space by disposing older versions?
In particular, after purging 2.1 et. al. by hand, I have all these: $ COLUMNS=888 dpkg -l|awk '/python2.2/{print $2}'|xargs idle-python2.2 python2.2 python2.2-dev python2.2-doc python2.2-egenix-mxdatetime python2.2-egenix-mxtools python2.2-examples python2.2-extclass python2.2-gadfly python2.2-gdbm python2.2-imaging python2.2-imaging-sane python2.2-imaging-tk python2.2-ldap python2.2-mpz python2.2-numeric python2.2-optik python2.2-tk python2.2-xml python2.2-xmlbase I suppose I can only pipe this list to sed 's/2.2/2.3/g'|xargs apt-get install, there being no better way to upgrade them? Wait, tcl seems to be in the same state, both 8.3 and 8.4 installed, whats worse, many packages e.g. depend on tcl8.3 (>= 8.3.0), and not tcl (>= 8.3.0). But a developer couldn't specify the latter because the version number is hardwired into the only available package's name.