Changes between Version 1 and Version 2 of Ticket #2193, comment 28
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- 2014-04-15T01:52:49Z (11 years ago)
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Ticket #2193, comment 28
v1 v2 2 2 > I'm not entirely following the pinning argument. tahoe is building ok in pkgsrc with 0.14. So if you require 0.13, the package will fail and no longer be available, and I'll just mark it BROKEN. What's wrong with a situation where pyOpenSSL 0.14 is properly installed, with all its dependencies? 3 3 4 That's a good question. The issue is that the Python package-distribution metadata conflates the question "what dependent package versions are acceptable to meet this package's requirement?", with the question "what dependent package versions should I attempt to fetch and build in order to meet this package's requirement ?" That's a problem in situations where the fetch-and-build process is unreliable.4 That's a good question. The issue is that the Python package-distribution metadata conflates the question "what dependent package versions are acceptable to meet this package's requirement?", with the question "what dependent package versions should I attempt to fetch and build in order to meet this package's requirement (when not using an OS packaging system)?" That's a problem in situations where the fetch-and-build process is unreliable. 5 5 6 6 We ''could'' hack around this conflation by doing the following:
