Re: ITP: aster -- Finite Element Analysis (FEA) software for engineering simulations

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On 05/16/2011 04:22 PM, Andrea Palazzi wrote:
>> Da: Sylvestre Ledru <sylvestre@debian.org>
>> Oggetto: Re: ITP: aster -- Finite Element Analysis (FEA) software for engineering simulations
>> A: "Andrea Palazzi" <palazziandrea@yahoo.it>
>> Cc: "Christophe Trophime" <christophe.trophime@lncmi.cnrs.fr>, debian-science@lists.debian.org, "Nicolas Chauvat" <nicolas.chauvat@logilab.fr>
>> Data: Lunedì 16 maggio 2011, 09:46
>> Le dimanche 15 mai 2011 à 18:50
>> +0100, Andrea Palazzi a écrit :
>>> in particular, at the moment the package builds a
>> code-aster version
>>> for every version of python that is found on the
>> system, that doesn't
>>> seems correct to me;
>> Why it does not seem correct ? 
> 
> Because (I think) is not guaranteed that an executable will work with
> all versions of python; and it seems a bit strange to me to have a
> package that contains an executable for every existing python version: should it depend on all of the python versions, or what?

As a user, I would like to see it build-depends on python-dev, the
default python version only, rather than on python-all-dev -- to reduce
the cluttering of my disk.

Thanks for the packaging work. I'm looking forward to it.

Regards,
ST
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