Bug 39594

Summary:	pdflib requires python 2.2?
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Stephen Boulet <stephen>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Python Gentoo Team <python>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	grandmasterlinux
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Stephen Boulet 2004-01-27 12:46:45 UTC

The ebuild for pdflib requires that python 2.2 be installed, even if python 2.3 is already installed. I edited out the requirement and pdflib seemed to compile fine with python 2.3.

Is this dependency on python 2.2 really necessary?

Reproducible: Always
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Comment 1 Alastair Tse (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-01-27 13:23:57 UTC

raker, you put in the python2.2 restriction, any reason for that?

Comment 2 Alastair Tse (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-02-14 03:08:11 UTC

someone (scandium) seems to have fixed this anomaly the same time you reported this. thanks for your report tho.