Colin Watson writes: > On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 11:29:12PM +1000, Donovan Baarda wrote: > > what about python2.3 having "Depends: python (>= 2.3)" > > > > This is IMHO a policy violation. python (2.3) should depend on python2.3, > > python2.3 should not depend on python. > > > > It's playing havoc with my mixed testing/unstable systems, as some > > unstable packages want python2.3 (>=2.3), which then wants to pull in > > every single python package from unstable because it forces the python > > (2.3) transition which I really don't want to do until it is ready. It > > doesn't have to be this way. > > While this would probably help users, it won't make the transition > easier as far as testing is concerned, because python comes from the > python2.3 source package and python2.3 is only at 2.2.106 in testing. > Perhaps it could be left until after the testing transition is complete > so that we have something more or less releaseable first?
yes, exactly my plan: remove the dependency after the migration to testing.