distutils and Debian

[Colin J. Williams]

Sam Holden wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 19:08:09 -0500, Colin J. Williams <cjw at sympatico.ca> wrote:
> 
>>The distutils download page has:
>>--------------------------------------------------------
>>Current stable release
>>
>>The current stable release is Distutils 1.0.2; you can download it as:
>>
>>     * Distutils-1.0.2.tar.gz (source distribution) (233k)
>>     * Distutils-1.0.2.zip (source distribution) (274k)
>>     * Distutils-1.0.2.win32.exe (Windows installer) (187k)
>>
>>If you are running Python version 1.6 or later, you do not need to 
>>download the Distutils: they're included with Python. However, if you 
>>have a Distutils more recent than your Python, you might want to install 
>>it: see the Distutils README.txt file. Version 1.0.2 is identical to the 
>>version included in Python 2.1.
>>---------------------------------------------------------
>>
>>With Debian, it seems that distutils is not included for
>>Python 2.2 or 2.3.
>>
>>Should this be reported as a Debian bug?
> 
> 
> No.
> 
> It's in the python2.x-dev packages.
> 
> Debian often split large things up into smaller packages, distutils
> isn't needed by the basic debian user who only installs debian
> packages after all. 
> 
> "apt-cache search distutils" finds it easily enough for those who do
> want it.
> 
Thanks for pointing this out, but I have checked and Python2.3.4-dev is 
installed.

Colin W.