[MacPorts] #19442: librsvg incompatible with Python 3

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Fri Aug 7 06:28:25 PDT 2009


#19442: librsvg incompatible with Python 3
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  Reporter:  gale@…          |       Owner:  macports-tickets@…                   
      Type:  defect          |      Status:  closed                               
  Priority:  Normal          |   Milestone:                                       
 Component:  ports           |     Version:  1.7.1                                
Resolution:  wontfix         |    Keywords:                                       
      Port:  librsvg         |  
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Comment(by gale@…):

 Why? Various versions of Python 3 have been considered
 "stable production versions" of Python for a
 long time now. Anyone doing serious development in
 Python will consider doing this.

 When a package/port depends on a legacy version, the
 standard behavior for packaging systems is
 to provide that dependency to the specific package,
 not to downgrade the entire system. That's why upstream
 considers this a MacPorts bug.

 But if it's really true that MacPorts won't support
 setting Python 3 as the default, then doing that
 should be removed as an option. As long as MacPorts
 officially supports setting Python 3 as the default -
 which I maintain it should - then this is certainly a
 bug in my opinion.

 Fact - when I configure my MacPorts in a reasonable
 and supported way, this package fails to build.
 Please explain why that's not a bug.

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Ticket URL: <http://trac.macports.org/ticket/19442#comment:5>
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