Path: csiph.com!feeder.erje.net!2.eu.feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!aioe.org!bofh.it!news.nic.it!robomod From: Matthias Klose Newsgroups: linux.debian.maint.python Subject: =?UTF-8?Q?Re:_Python_Programs_policy_=28=c2=a74.2=29_requires_depen?= =?UTF-8?Q?dency_on_python2_which_doesn't_exist?= Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2017 01:40:01 +0100 Message-ID: References: X-Original-To: debian-python@lists.debian.org, Don Armstrong X-Mailbox-Line: From debian-python-request@lists.debian.org Wed Nov 1 00:38:21 2017 Old-Return-Path: X-Amavis-Spam-Status: No, score=-7.6 tagged_above=-10000 required=5.3 tests=[BAYES_00=-2, FOURLA=0.1, LDO_WHITELIST=-5, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-0.7] autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Policyd-Weight: using cached result; rate: -4.2 Old-X-Envelope-From: doko@debian.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/15352 List-ID: List-URL: List-Archive: https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/434fed20-f2b1-2f5e-b1b6-7939a34d182a@debian.org Approved: robomod@news.nic.it Lines: 17 Organization: linux.* mail to news gateway Sender: robomod@news.nic.it X-Original-Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2017 01:16:08 +0100 X-Original-Message-ID: <434fed20-f2b1-2f5e-b1b6-7939a34d182a@debian.org> X-Original-References: <20171031165243.752ctk2keyxi5tqw@qor.donarmstrong.com> <6AF5B4D5-AF98-4FDD-9F5B-FC565FA50B96@kitterman.com> Xref: csiph.com linux.debian.maint.python:9969 On 31.10.2017 22:07, Scott Kitterman wrote: > > > On October 31, 2017 12:52:43 PM EDT, Don Armstrong wrote: >> The Debian python policy ยง4.2 has a MUST directive for a dependency on >> python2, which does not exist at all. >> >> I'm guessing that this was at some point in time a virtual package or >> similar provided by the default python2 interpreter? Not sure. Anyway, >> would be good if that was fixed. >> >> [I ran into this while packaging autorandr and trying my best to follow >> policy.] > > Thanks. It's a typo (should be python). but it is perfectly fine to use python2 as the shebang.