[Python-Dev] Python and the Linux Standard Base (LSB)

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Sat Dec 2 23:10:27 CET 2006


Fredrik Lundh schrieb:
> maybe we could just ask distributors to prepare a page that describes 
> what portions of the standard distribution they do include, and in what 
> packages they've put the various components, and link to those from the 
> library reference and/or the wiki or FAQ?  is there perhaps some 
> machine-readable format that could be used for this?

Debian has its machine-readable (in some sense) package list at
packages.debian.org. Through several links, you get to

http://packages.qa.debian.org/p/python2.4.html

which gives you the list of binary packages produced from the
source package:

idle-python2.4
python2.4
python2.4-dbg
python2.4-dev
python2.4-doc
python2.4-examples
python2.4-minimal

Interestingly enough, _tkinter.so isn't included in any of these;
instead, you have to look at

http://packages.qa.debian.org/p/python-stdlib-extensions.html

Depending on what precisely "this" is you want to use it for,
there are other lists as well.

Regards,
Martin


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