stdeb seems to be adding too many Python dependencies

[bmhatfield]

Built on a recent Ubuntu, stdeb is adding a false dependency on Python 2.7 to a build I am running, even when I override it via XS-Python-Version:

Depends: python2.7 | python2.6, python (>= 2.7.1-0ubuntu2), python (<< 2.8)

How do I tell stdeb not to include the system version of Python as a dependency?

[wITTus]

I just had the same problem. Did you find an answer?

[dbarnett]

I think I'm having the same problem. No matter what I've tried, my debian/$pkgname.substvars file has
python3:Depends=python3, python3:any (>= 3.3.2-2~)
which makes my package unusable for systems that only have python 3.2. I've tried setting Depends3, X-Python3-Version, and XS-Python3-Version. I have python 3.2 installed on the host system and I don't understand where the ">= 3.3.2-2~" is coming from.

Can someone help?

[dbarnett]

This StackOverflow question seems to be asking the same thing: http://stackoverflow.com/q/16404530/307705

[astraw]

For your Python 3 issue, this is exactly the same thing we're discussing at #83 . In short, it is added by the Debian machinery on your build machine and stdeb can only workaround with some ugliness. I plan to merge that pull request after verifying it works for me. Can you send me what versions of Debian/Ubuntu you're building and testing on and what package you're trying with so I can verify the patch's generality?

[dbarnett]

Oh, thanks. Missed that one.

I'd like to build https://github.com/google/vroom for Ubuntu 12.04 from a Ubuntu 14.04 system. Travis CI uses 12.04 environments and I'm seeing these errors for the packages I'm currently building:

dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of vroom:
 vroom depends on python3:any (>= 3.3.2-2~); however:
  Version of python3 on system is 3.2.3-0ubuntu1.2.

[dirk-thomas]

Closing due to age.

Please feel free to comment if this is still a problem and the ticket can be reopened.