BuildRequires on python-abi

[Joe Orton]

On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 04:22:35AM -0400, Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams wrote:
> 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?

I don't see how this makes any sense; the dependency on a particular
python ABI is a property of a *binary* package, not a source package. If
you have a package which only builds with python >= 2.4 (is that what
you're saying?), surely it should just BR: python >= 2.4 or similar?

joe