Package: linuxconf Version: N/A; reported 2001-11-06 Severity: serious Justification: Policy 2.4.2
There is no python2.1-dev (or other version) build-dep, and this leads to two problems. First, the package is inconsistently built; a buildd would likely not include the python module support. This violates the spirit, if not the precise letter, of section 2.4.2 in the policy manual. Second, as I discovered this afternoon, it means that if python2.1-dev has been installed on a box, but is no longer, the Makefile for python modules detects the now-empty directory /usr/include/python2.1, assumes python2.1 is the proper version against which to compile, and the build fails because Python.h cannot be found. -- System Information Debian Release: testing/unstable Architecture: ia64 Kernel: Linux butthead 2.4.9-itanium-smp #1 SMP Mon Sep 17 20:48:35 MDT 2001 ia64 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=
