Bug#659068: Allows installing non-matching python-gtk2 and python-gtk2-dev

[Michael Biebl]

On 08.02.2012 00:51, Michal Suchanek wrote:
> Package: python-gtk2-dev
> Version: 2.17.0-4
> Severity: serious
> Justification: Policy 3.5
> 
> 
> I was trying to compile python-gnome2 and figured it does not build
> because python-gtk2 and pythong-gkt2-dev are different version, even
> built for different python.
> 
> According to debian policy 3.5 packages should depend on the required
> shared libraries which in this case does not happen.

Problem is the arch-all to arch-any relationship, that's why the package
uses which doesn't allow a strict depencency.

It currently uses:

Package: python-gtk2-dev
Architecture: all
Depends: python-gtk2 (>= ${source:Version}),

Aside from making python-gtk2-dev arch-any, we could use something like
Depends: python-gtk2 (>= ${source:Version}), python-gtk2 (<<
${source:Version}.1~)




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