Comment 5 for bug 689615

The uploaded diff is rather large, and I'm trying to understand it. The referenced bugs all fail on "Requested versions are not installed". So that's a check from pycompile and a package requests 2.7, but since we still have the old python-minimal installed it doesn't know about this version yet?

The changes to public_modules.rtinstall and public_modules.rt remove seem irrelevant for this SRU, as we don't support 2.4/2.5 in maverick, right?

To me it seems the gut of the required change here is that, is this correct?

@@ -235,7 +255,13 @@
             'only, please use /usr/share/python/bcep to specify '
             'public modules to skip')

- versions = get_requested_versions(options.vrange, available=True)
+ if options.vrange and options.vrange[0] == options.vrange[1] and\
+ options.vrange != (None, None) and\
+ exists("/usr/bin/python%d.%d" % options.vrange[0]):
+ # specific version requested, use it even if it's not in SUPPORTED
+ versions = set(options.vrange[:1])
+ else:
+ versions = get_requested_versions(options.vrange, available=True)
     if not versions:
         log.error('Requested versions are not installed')
         exit(3)

What other part does actually specify the vrange option?

Is the addition of the --force and -O options related in any way?