[Image-SIG] any debian folks here?

[Simon Richter]

On Fri, 23 Nov 2001, Joe Reinhardt wrote:

> >> and why on earth does the imaging distribution *depend*
> >> on the sane backends?  (should be "may use, but sure doesn't require").

It is a dependency since we need to compile the binaries we ship against
the SANE headers. SANE is not required to be installed on the end
users' boxes unless you install the SANE interface from python-imaging.

> > 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...

The policy is, as I see it, in the stabilizing phase, where we apply it to
packages to see if there are any unforeseen problems. All the maintainers
for Python related packages have been sent notices that this would happen.
If nothing bad happens, it will become an official policy amendment soon.

   Simon

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