Python 2.7 dependency in ufw-frontends in overlay [Solved]

[Fitzcarraldo]

The ufw-0.30.1-r2.ebuild in the Sabayon overlay has:

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PYTHON_DEPEND="2:2.5"

The ufw-frontends-0.2.0.ebuild in the Sabayon overlay has:

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PYTHON_DEPEND="2:2.7"

I was wondering if the dependency on Python 2.7 in ufw-frontends-0.2.0.ebuild was done for a specific reason, or just because SL migrated to Python 2.7 recently?

At the moment I don't want to migrate to Python 2.7 on one of my machines, and the following allows ufw-frontends-0.2.0.ebuild in my local overlay to merge and run without apparent problems on that machine:

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PYTHON_DEPEND="2:2.6"

So, is there is a specific reason, other than the SL migration to Python 2.7, why Python 2.7 is required for ufw-frontends version 0.2.0?

[joost]

You better ask such questions on our devel mailinglist.



http://lists.sabayon.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devel

[Fitzcarraldo]

Thanks for your reply, but I was hoping you or one of the other developers who frequent these forums as a matter of course would know the answer, thus avoiding me joining a developers' mailing list to spam all its members with a question which is irrelevant to their development work and would distract them from it.

As no one has answered my question here, I have studied the ebuild and the source code of ufw-frontends. In the file setup.py I noticed the line:

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        'Programming Language :: Python :: 2.6'

from which I take it that forcing a dependency on Python 2.7 in the ebuild is unnecessary and the change I mentioned earlier will have no detrimental effects. I will therefore mark the thread as solved.

EDIT (July 6, 2011 12:20 BST): For the sake of completeness, I have now noticed in the SL Git repository that the person who committed the ufw-frontends ebuild to the Sabayon overlay repository on 26 May 2011 is named Sławomir Nizio, so he would have been the person who could have answered my question.

[Thev00d00]

Ive plinged Enlik to get him to double check that dep.

[Fitzcarraldo]

Thanks, Thev00d00. I notice that yesterday the dependency was lowered to Python 2.6 in net-firewall/ufw-frontends/ufw-frontends-0.2.0.ebuild in the Sabayon overlay repository:

http://gitweb.sabayon.org/?p=overlay.gi ... 6d40387d3e