Bug#606857: vmtk: Depends on hard-coded Python version

[Johannes Ring]

Hi Stefano,

thanks for your report.

On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 2:58 PM, Stefano Rivera <stefano at rivera.za.net> wrote:
> Package: vmtk
> Version: 0.9.0-1
> Severity: normal
> Tags: patch
>
> Is there any reason that this package states "XS-Python-Version: 2.6" ?

Well, I thought that it was only necessary to build vmtk against the
same version of Python as in the vtk package and since that package
uses "XS-Python-Version: current" I ended up with "2.6" since the
"current" keyword has been deprecated.

> XS-Python-Version is supposed to state the versions of python that the
> source supports. Then pysupport will allow it to work with the
> intersection of distro-supported and package-supported Python versions.

OK, I must have missed that part of the Debian Python Policy.

> Does it not support 2.7?
> Does it not support 2.5?
>
> As far as I can tell, the upstream code-base supports >= 2.3 [0]
>
> [0]: http://www.vmtk.org/Main/Installation
>
> So I suggest:
>> XS-Python-Version: >= 2.3

Yes, you are right. I will fix this in the next upload.

Thanks again,

Johannes