[Python-Dev] Python and the Linux Standard Base (LSB) (original) (raw)

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Sat Dec 2 23:10:27 CET 2006

Fredrik Lundh schrieb:

maybe we could just ask distributors to prepare a page that describes what portions of the standard distribution they do include, and in what packages they've put the various components, and link to those from the library reference and/or the wiki or FAQ? is there perhaps some machine-readable format that could be used for this?

Debian has its machine-readable (in some sense) package list at packages.debian.org. Through several links, you get to

http://packages.qa.debian.org/p/python2.4.html

which gives you the list of binary packages produced from the source package:

idle-python2.4 python2.4 python2.4-dbg python2.4-dev python2.4-doc python2.4-examples python2.4-minimal

Interestingly enough, _tkinter.so isn't included in any of these; instead, you have to look at

http://packages.qa.debian.org/p/python-stdlib-extensions.html

Depending on what precisely "this" is you want to use it for, there are other lists as well.

Regards, Martin

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