Re: Help needed with #159208

2002-09-06 Thread Donovan Baarda
On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 08:49:21AM -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 07:48:38AM -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: [...] Remember, /usr/bin/python is a symlink installed by the python package, and without a dependancy on this package there is no gaurentee that it will

Help needed with #159208

2002-09-05 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
Wajig, once upon a time, compiled its .py files. That wasn't really useful as the performance bottlenecks come from the externally called programs, not wajig itself. So I removed that a while ago. However, the versioned Depends and Build-Depends persisted ... and so I just got a bug report,

Re: Help needed with #159208

2002-09-05 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
You should depend on exactly the Python versions you support, not on python. For example Depends: python1.5 | python2.1 | python2.2 I see. But why not simply Depends: python (= 1.5) And if you dont compile any Python packages, why do you still have to build-depend on python-dev? Quite

Re: Help needed with #159208

2002-09-05 Thread Donovan Baarda
On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 07:48:38AM -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: You should depend on exactly the Python versions you support, not on python. For example Depends: python1.5 | python2.1 | python2.2 I see. But why not simply Depends: python (= 1.5) I think this is wrong. If this is

Re: Help needed with #159208

2002-09-05 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 07:48:38AM -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: You should depend on exactly the Python versions you support, not on python. For example Depends: python1.5 | python2.1 | python2.2 I see. But why not simply Depends: python (= 1.5) I think this is