Bug#302295: python should use the alternatives mechanism

2005-04-03 Thread Donovan Baarda
On Sun, 2005-04-03 at 12:53 -0700, Ralph Giles wrote: > On Sun, Apr 03, 2005 at 09:21:55PM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: > > > consider > > > > Package: baz > > Depends: python2.2 | python2.3, python2.2-foo | python2.3-foo, > > python2.2-bar | python2.3-bar > > > > the dependencies are fullf

Bug#302295: python should use the alternatives mechanism

2005-04-03 Thread Ralph Giles
On Sun, Apr 03, 2005 at 09:21:55PM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: > consider > > Package: baz > Depends: python2.2 | python2.3, python2.2-foo | python2.3-foo, > python2.2-bar | python2.3-bar > > the dependencies are fullfilled installing python2.2-foo and python2.3-bar... So how does package

Bug#302295: python should use the alternatives mechanism

2005-04-03 Thread Matthias Klose
Ralph Giles writes: > On Sun, Apr 03, 2005 at 08:54:58PM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: > > > > > no, because you cannot assure, that all modules installed in one > > > > version are installed on the other version as well. > > > > > > So because debian packages don't track python module dependencie

Bug#302295: python should use the alternatives mechanism

2005-04-03 Thread Ralph Giles
On Sun, Apr 03, 2005 at 08:54:58PM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: > > > no, because you cannot assure, that all modules installed in one > > > version are installed on the other version as well. > > > > So because debian packages don't track python module dependencies > > correctly, > > incorrect

Bug#302295: python should use the alternatives mechanism

2005-04-03 Thread Matthias Klose
Ralph Giles writes: > On Sun, Apr 03, 2005 at 03:44:47PM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: > > > no, because you cannot assure, that all modules installed in one > > version are installed on the other version as well. > > So because debian packages don't track python module dependencies > correctly,

Bug#302295: python should use the alternatives mechanism

2005-03-30 Thread Ralph Giles
Package: python Version: 2.3.5-1 Debian provides parallel installable versions of python as, e.g. python (which depends on python2.3) and python2.4. However, the default /usr/bin/python executable is a symlink to python2.3 owned (I think?) by the python package itself. Thus, the only way to cha