On Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 09:20:24PM -0500, Jack Howarth wrote: > I believe the BuildConflicts on blt-dev was added to python24 > by Daniel Macks to avoid it accidentally being linked into python24. > The note at... > > http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/fink/dists/10.4-transitional/unstable/main/finkinfo/languages/python24.info?rev=1.8&view=markup > > ...indicates Daniel was unclear if he should do the same for python23.
The issue is that python autodetects blt-dev and links against blt if it is present, but blt-dev was not a dependency nor were any flags used to force it to be unused if present. That's a fundamental packaging bug: either it must always be used (and hence a dependency) or never be used (autodetection must fail). blt has a lot of dependencies, its upstream looked pretty inactive, and I couldn't find a reason to have it included, so I leaned towards never using it. Email to python* maintainer went unanswered and un-acted-upon, so I added blt-dev as a BuildConflicts to avoid having it autodetected. I did this to both python23 and python24. It's clear that maintainer knew I was monkeying with python/blt at that point because I screwed up the python23 fix and he repaired it. So if we need python24 with blt, let's just add it (and rev-up obviously) and check to see if we need to add it as a dependency of things that link to python24. dan -- Daniel Macks [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.netspace.org/~dmacks ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
