Peter Amstutz writes: > 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.
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