Bug#401896: Accepted pygtk 2.8.6-7 (source i386 all)

[Josselin Mouette]

Le jeudi 07 décembre 2006 à 08:17 +0100, Loïc Minier a écrit :
> On Wed, Dec 06, 2006, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> > Shouldn't python-dev be enough? Depending on python-all-dev will bring
> > all python interpreter versions, this sounds overkill to me.
> 
>  I wanted to depend on python-dev | python-something-dev, but there's no
>  virtual provide shared by python2.X-dev packages.  Since
>  python-gtk2-dev ships header files which could theoritically be
>  different between python versions, it made no particular sense to favor
>  python-dev, so I picked python-all-dev for symmetry.
> 
>  I think python-dev is ok as well.

The python policy implies that if you want to build something against
the non-default python version, you need python-foo and python2.X-dev.
Which means in this case, a python-dev dependency should be enough. This
would avoid pulling several interpreter versions when not needed.

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