[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Bug#595715: virtualbox-ose: build against python2.6

[Michael Gilbert]

On Mon, 6 Sep 2010 12:05:00 +0200 Jakub Wilk wrote:

> (I am not maintainer of this package.)
> 
> * Michael Gilbert <michael.s.gilbert at gmail.com>, 2010-09-05, 21:31:
> >attached is a patch that builds the virtualbox packages so that they 
> >depend on the default python (2.6) instead of python 2.5.
> 
> For those, like me, who are confused by this bug description: current 
> version of virtualbox-ose indeed depends on python2.5 on amd64 (but not 
> on i386).
> 
> >-               python-dev (>= 2.4),
> >+               python-dev (>= 2.6),
> 
> I fail to see how applying this hunk is better than simply rebuilding 
> (e.g. by a binNMU) in up-to-date sid.

that's seems like a fine solution, and probably better than mine.
this is just what i did to fix it.

> >-XS-Python-Version: >= 2.4
> >+XS-Python-Version: >= 2.6
> 
> This change sounds wrong. virtualbox-ose does support (on source level) 
> all versions >= 2.4.

i'm not sure that xs-python-version is intended as you think.  my
interpretation is that it is intended to automatically generate the python
depends info; i.e. the ${python:Version} variable [0].  i could very well
be reading that wrong though.

mike

[0] http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/python-policy/ch-module_packages.html