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tonyg writes on comp.lang.ada:
> I've made some progress on the dependency side regarding python.  It
> needs a link to exist in /usr/bin/ called python-config and I think
> pretty much any python will do. Its a strange one though isn't it,
> don't packages have to have only possible dependency rather than a
> choice?

Python on Debian is outside my area of expertise.  I don't know what
python-config is or what it's supposed to do.  I do know of a Debian
Python Policy[1], which I have not read, and of a package
"python-dev"[2] that provides /bin/python-config.  Is that what you are
referring to?

[1] http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/python-policy/
[2] http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=contents&keywords=python-config&mode=exactfilename&suite=testing&arch=any

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Ludovic Brenta.