Package: python2.4 Version: 2.4.2-2 Severity: normal
Ok, I don't know too much about the specifics of this situation, so let me just paste the following exchange from IRC (#bzr on freenode) (I'm "tetron") <tetron> ohh, bzr setup.py requires Python development files. tsk tsk. <bos31337> tetron: no, it doesn't. <bos31337> some linux distros ship broken python installations. <bos31337> where they've mistakenly shipped distutils (part of core python) in a devel package. <tetron> /usr/lib/python2.4/config/Makefile is part of python-dev on Debian <bos31337 that's debian brokenness. <tetron> has it been reported? <bos31337> i don't know. i don't use debian. Perhaps it is a matter of taste, but my understanding is that python-dev is specifically for developing with the Python C API, whereas bzr is a pure Python program that happens to use some information from /usr/lib/python2.4/config/Makefile in order to install in a reasonable place. Thus, these config files should probably be part of the main Python package, and not python-dev. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.12 Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Versions of packages python2.4 depends on: ii libbz2-1.0 1.0.3-2 high-quality block-sorting file co ii libc6 2.3.6-3 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libdb4.3 4.3.29-4.1 Berkeley v4.3 Database Libraries [ ii libncurses5 5.5-1 Shared libraries for terminal hand ii libreadline5 5.1-7 GNU readline and history libraries ii libssl0.9.8 0.9.8a-8 SSL shared libraries ii python2.4-minimal 2.4.2-2 A minimal subset of the Python lan python2.4 recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
