Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-packaging (220 mails)

[Sascha Peilicke <saschpe@xxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 29 June 2011 13:56:51 Mathias Homann wrote:
> hi there,
>
>
> I'm still trying to package calibre >= 0.8 for opensuse.
> Problems are:
> 1. calibre by now requires python 2.7.1 or higher but NOT python 3
> 2. the original author is about as cooperative and helpful as the german
> tax authorities on a bad day. His general approach to any kind of support
> question is "If you're not running the binaries from my website, go eff
> yourself."

While having Python-2.7.1 for openSUSE-11.4 would be nice indeed, I still 
don't see the reason why anything should require that exact version. It's 
supposed to be ABI-compatible with 2.7.0. Does calibre build/run with 2.7.0 or 
not?
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Mit freundlichen Grüßen,
Sascha Peilicke
http://saschpe.wordpress.com