Bug#679819: [Python-modules-team] Bug#679819: Dropping Provides field broke depending software (python-avogadro)

2012-07-05 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Thursday, July 05, 2012 07:59:19 AM Scott Kitterman wrote: > sip4 will cause you the same problem. I'll take care of that too. Actually that's wrong. Sip4 is fine. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas

Bug#679819: [Python-modules-team] Bug#679819: Dropping Provides field broke depending software (python-avogadro)

2012-07-05 Thread Scott Kitterman
sip4 will cause you the same problem. I'll take care of that too. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#679819: Dropping Provides field broke depending software (python-avogadro)

2012-07-05 Thread Scott Kitterman
I can. Thanks for the second opinion. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#679819: Dropping Provides field broke depending software (python-avogadro)

2012-07-05 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Daniel Leidert , 2012-07-04, 22:19: python-avogadro is the only package in the archive that depends on python2.7-qt4. I think it makes more sense to fix it there than in python-qt4 and depend on a bug in poilcy, but since that's what it says, I'll fix it in python-qt4 if you prefer. I would

Bug#679819: Dropping Provides field broke depending software (python-avogadro)

2012-07-04 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Wednesday, July 04, 2012 10:19:34 PM Daniel Leidert wrote: ... > If the policy is not correct, it should be fixed after Wheezy release. > I'd appreciate a pointer from your site, when you start the discussion. ... After the Wheezy release having the provides will be entirely superfluous since t

Bug#679819: Dropping Provides field broke depending software (python-avogadro)

2012-07-04 Thread Daniel Leidert
Am Sonntag, den 01.07.2012, 20:13 -0400 schrieb Scott Kitterman: > That's a bug in the policy I failed to notice. It should be restricted to > packages that build modules only for the non-default version of Python which > Avogadro doesn't. One or the other package needs to be changed. I agree

Bug#679819: Dropping Provides field broke depending software (python-avogadro)

2012-07-01 Thread Scott Kitterman
That's a bug in the policy I failed to notice. It should be restricted to packages that build modules only for the non-default version of Python which Avogadro doesn't. One or the other package needs to be changed. I agree with that. python-avogadro is the only package in the archive that de

Bug#679819: Dropping Provides field broke depending software (python-avogadro)

2012-07-01 Thread Daniel Leidert
> The Avogadro dependency is incorrect and should be fixed. Depends: > python2.7, python-qt4 will do what you want. Since, if Avogadro needs 2.7, > you need to depend on it directly, also depending on python2.7-qt4 is > redundant. I disagree. Citing the Debian Python Policy section 2.4: "Packaged

Bug#679819: [Python-modules-team] Bug#679819: Dropping Provides field broke depending software (python-avogadro)

2012-07-01 Thread Scott Kitterman
The Avogadro dependency is incorrect and should be fixed. Depends: python2.7, python-qt4 will do what you want. Since, if Avogadro needs 2.7, you need to depend on it directly, also depending on python2.7-qt4 is redundant. Scott K P.S. Due to a multi-day power outage all I've got to work from is

Bug#679819: Dropping Provides field broke depending software (python-avogadro)

2012-07-01 Thread Daniel Leidert
Package: python-qt4 Version: 4.9.3-1 Severity: serious -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The last upload of python-qt4 removed the Provides field. Unfortunately this breaks the installation of avogadro, which depends on python2.7-qt4. Why has this field been removed and how should th