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Re: Bug#221523: Causes build failures



Hi, Junichi Uekawa wrote:

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> Matthias Klose:
>> some people wanted to be able to keep the default python version at
>> version 2.2, but install packages from unstable, when the default
>> versions were different in testing and unstable.
> 
> I do doubt such special needs should be forced upon all of 
> us.
> 
Who's forcing you? If you need "python", depend on "python"; if you need
"python2.3", depend on that. That's not force, it's plain common sense
IMHO.

It's clean, it works, and packages with Build-Depends: which do not take
this into account need to be fixed anyway.

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