BuildRequires on python-abi

Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams ivazquez at ivazquez.net
Tue Apr 5 08:22:35 UTC 2005


On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 09:11 +0100, Joe Orton wrote:
> I expect this was just a braino on someone's part, it should have been
> Requires not BuildRequires;

No, it was deliberate. It's there for the purpose of allowing the
package to be built for versions of python other than the primary one,
e.g., python-2.4 under FC3. It most likely won't get much use, but who's
to say a similar problem won't show up in the future?

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Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <ivazquez at ivazquez.net>
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