Thread: Pybattery - battery statusbar applet with candies
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2008-12-21 , 19:55
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#134
Originally Posted by tz1 View Post
The python-runtime (expanded to include most packages like dbus, gnome, bluez, and the plugins) should be installed either by default, or should be the single dependency.

The problem is some components are recent developments (desktop and applet integration as an example), and some packages say "python-XYZ" instead of "python2.5-XYZ", which might be correct for a desktop or somewhere else.

Are there any bugs I should vote for to clean up the python package diaspora?
The confusing thing about the python-* packges is its versioning
I want to provide guaranteed functionality, so have to use python2.5-* dependencies sometimes (in fact all the time). The other thing is that python-runtime (python2.5-runtime in fact) has lot of dependencies, which aren't used in my application, so adding it as a dependency leads to more useless package installed. On the other hand lots of apps use other runtime dependencies, so anyway they gonna be installed...
By the way, the latest 5.2008.43-7 has no python*-runtime dependency and as far as I remember (correct me if I'm wrong) previous version has it...