Re: Change version number of python built-in module packages

["OBATA Akio" <obache%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Sat, 13 Apr 2013 05:45:39 +0900, matthew sporleder 
<msporleder%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 5:18 AM, OBATA Akio <obache%netbsd.org@localhost> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Currently, version number of python built-in module packages
> > is fixed as 0:
> >   databases/py-sqlite3
> >   devel/py-curses
> >   devel/py-cursespanel
> >   devel/py-readline
> >   textproc/py-expat
> >   textproc/py-cElementTree
> >   x11/py-Tk
> >
> > I feel it should be changed to use base python version ${PY_DISTVERSION
> > (same as Ruby and PHP modules), or those packages will not be updated
> > even if update of Pyhon base distribution contains fixes for such modules.
> >
> > Any comments/suggestins/objections?
>
>
> Do these exist only to support older versions of python?

No, part of Python distribution, but provided as separate packages
in pkgsrc.

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