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Re: Does “${python3:Depends}” reliably generate correct dependencies?

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Subject	Re: Does “${python3:Depends}” reliably generate correct dependencies?
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[Ben Finney, 2015-10-25]
> Howdy all,
> 
> If we set “Depends: ${python3:Depends}” in the binary package, and use
> ‘dh_python3’, is that all that is needed to ensure the correct
> dependencies on Python 3 versions?

you also have to add correct Build-Dependencies (if not for something
else, then because you need them for tests)

> Recently I received this bug report (Bug#802889):
> 
>     please don't depend on all python3 versions, forcing the
>     installation of all python versions shouldn't be enforced for a
>     module.

my bet is you have versioned interpreter in shebang (which dh_python3
doesn't rewrite unless you tell it to via --shebang=/usr/bin/python3)
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Does “${python3:Depends}” reliably  generate correct dependencies? Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au> - 2015-10-25 06:20 +0100
  Re: Does “${python3:Depends}”  reliably generate correct dependencies? Brian May <brian@linuxpenguins.xyz> - 2015-10-25 08:00 +0100
  Re: Does “${python3:Depends}” reliably generate correct dependencies? Scott Kitterman <debian@kitterman.com> - 2015-10-25 10:10 +0100
    Re: Does “${python3:Depends}” reliably generate  correct dependencies? Dmitry Shachnev <mitya57@debian.org> - 2015-10-25 10:20 +0100
    Re: Does “${python3:Depends}”  reliably generate correct dependencies? Piotr Ożarowski <piotr@debian.org> - 2015-10-25 10:40 +0100
  Re: Does “${python3:Depends}”  reliably generate correct dependencies? Piotr Ożarowski <piotr@debian.org> - 2015-10-25 10:30 +0100

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