[Python-modules-team] Bug#445486: Bug#445486: mod-wsgi: Adds strict dependencies for no reason

[Bernd Zeimetz]

tags 445486 + wontfix
thanks

Hi,

> As mod_wsgi only links to libpython, it will perfectly work with 
> whatever python version that is the default at the time of the build. 
> However, adding strict python dependencies is bad, because it will 
> have to migrate to testing together with python, without it being 
> necessary.

no, as explained in my reply to your mail applications will badly fail
if it tries to run scripts using #!/usr/bin/python (which is the
default, even for packages shipped in Debian) when the package was build
against python2.4, while the default python version is 2.5.
To make sure a user updates both packages at the same time this
dependency was introduced. It will be updated on a rebuild with a new
default python version.


Bernd

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