Bug#462845: dependency on python-apt should be at least Recommends

[James Westby]

On Tue, 2008-01-29 at 17:25 +0100, Adeodato Simó wrote:
> Yes. I wasn't aware debian_support was used by some other python-debian
> modules, so I guess bumping to recommends is in order.
> 
> I haven't looked, but if what is used from debian_support is the version
> comparison code, I'd recommend switching to using apt_pkg directly,
> since there is no longer only-Python code to do that comparison in
> debian_support.

Hi,

changelog uses a subclass of Version, and is often used for the
version comparison code. I would vote for making python-apt a
Depends. What is the argument for not doing so?

Thanks,

James