[Image-SIG] any debian folks here?

[Joe Reinhardt]

I think the most up-to-date policy exists at

http://people.debian.org/~flight/python/

I have CC'ed this to Simon Richter <sjr@debian.org>, the debian
packager for python-imaging.  Maybe he can comment on the
dependencies and other policy issues related to python-imaging.

- JMR


Ture P=E5lsson <ture@lysator.liu.se> writes:

> "Fredrik Lundh" <fredrik@pythonware.com> writes:
>
>> the post says:
>>=20
>>     python-imaging (python policy, new deps on buggy sane-backends)
>>=20
>> what policy?  and why on earth does the imaging distribution *depend*
>> on the sane backends?  (should be "may use, but sure doesn't require").
>
> The policy in question is probably the Debian Python Policy, i.e. the
> document that describes how a Python-based Debian package is supposed
> to behave. However, I cannot find this document except as draft
> versions in mailing list archives, and how one is supposed to comply
> with a non-existent document is beyond me...
>
> (I hope that last sentence will provoke some Debianite more hard-core
> than me to come up with a pointer. :-) )
>
> As for the dependences, you will probably have to ask the package
> maintainer about that.
>
>   -- T
>
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