On Mon, Jun 12, 2006 at 09:59:58PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > AFAIR, a package > > should not have to depend on python2.3 and python2.4; instead, applications > > that need a specific version of the interpreter should depend on it > > themselves. > I hope that it will be possible for such apps to do it without > specifying which version exactly (by declaring an appropriately > versioned dependency on python).
Apps can do either: Package: foo Depends: python (>= 2.4), python-bar /usr/bin/foo: #!/usr/bin/env python or Package: foo Depends: python2.4, python2.4-bar /usr/bin/foo: #!/usr/bin/env python2.4 depending on their needs. Cheers, aj
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