On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 10:55:54AM +1000, Donovan Baarda wrote: > On Wed, 2003-10-08 at 03:28, Matthias Klose wrote: > > It does help for python applications, which depend on an explicit > > python version. I did not count packages with a 'python2.3 (>= 2.3)' > > dependency. > > I would argue that using a versioned depends like "Depends: python2.3 > (>=2.3)" is a bad idea. What does the extra version info give you in > this case? > > The only reason to put a version on a "pythonX.Y" dependency would be if > you know there was a particular version of pythonX.Y that your package > doesn't work with.
The versioned dependency is probably generated automatically by dpkg-shlibdeps: $ cat /var/lib/dpkg/info/python2.3.shlibs libpython2.3 1.0 python2.3 (>= 2.3) I assume that this means binaries compiled against current python2.3 aren't guaranteed to work with prereleases. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]