On Mo, 2011-04-11 at 19:20 +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > On Mon, 2011-04-11 at 12:46 +0200, Julian Andres Klode wrote: > > We'd like to upload python-apt 0.7.100.1+squeeze1 (or without > > +, whatever is preferred) to stable. It contains the changes > > the ftpmasters seem to need for multi-arch support and xz > > packages in the archive. > > I'm sure this came up in earlier discussions regarding the multi-arch > change, but I can't find it right now. So far as I can see, this: > > + * python/apt_pkgmodule.cc: > + - strip multiarch by default in RealParseDepends > + - add optional parameter to allow parse_depends() to keep the > + multiarch parameter > > is an API change - i.e. the version of python-apt currently shipped in > Squeeze does /not/ strip multiarch specifiers by default? Do we know if > any of the reverse dependencies in Squeeze use ParseDepends() and might > be affected by the change? Since we do not support multi-arch in python-apt in squeeze (python-apt raises exceptions on multi-arch systems in squeeze), there should not be any reverse dependencies using it. We're shipping it in unstable since a few weeks and no one complained yet. And it's going to be shipped in Ubuntu natty.
> As a side note, if the default in apt's debListParser::ParseDepends() is > apparently wrong, is there a reason that's being worked around in > python-apt, rather than fixed in apt directly? It's fixed in apt 0.8.13.2. Yes, I am not happy with changing the default value for a function argument (especially without changing soname, as that's formally an ABI break). It's been done by David Kalnischkies, I'm sure he has a reason for it. -- Julian Andres Klode - Debian Developer, Ubuntu Member See http://wiki.debian.org/JulianAndresKlode and http://jak-linux.org/. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
