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

[matthew sporleder <msporleder%gmail.com@localhost>]

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?