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Mon Apr 10 01:35:57 CEST 2006 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2006-April/063569.html

On Sun, Apr 09, 2006 at 02:48:47PM -0400, Phillip J. Eby wrote:
> At 07:56 PM 4/9/2006 +0200, Martin v. Löwis wrote:
[...]
> >-1. These aren't external libraries; they are part of Python.
> 
> They *were* external libraries.  Also, many OS vendors nonetheless split 
> the standard library into different system packages, e.g. Debian's 
> longstanding tradition of excising the distutils into a separate python-dev 
> package.

Debian has fixed this bug.  The entire standard library, including distutils, is
now in the python2.4 package.  The python2.4-dev package mainly contains header
files now.  This has been true for some time; it's certainly the case in the
current stable release.

> As much as we might wish that vendors not do these things, they often have 
> practical matters of continuity and documentation to deal with; if they 
> currently have a "python-ctypes" package, for example, they may wish to 
> maintain that even when ctypes is bundled with 2.5.

They can do that just by shipping an empty "python-ctypes" package that depends
on the full python package.

-Andrew.

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