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Multiprocessing bug, is information ever omitted from a traceback?

John Ladasky ladasky at my-deja.com
Sat Dec 10 14:02:35 EST 2011 
On Dec 10, 10:38 am, Andrew Berg <bahamutzero8... at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 12/10/2011 11:53 AM, John Ladasky wrote:> Why did you specify Python 2.7.2, instead of the 2.7.6 version that is
> > being offered to me by Ubuntu Software Center?  Does it matter?
>
> There is no Python 2.7.6. I think you have it confused with the version
> 2.7.2-6. If I'm not mistaken, that appended 6 has to do with packaging
> and nothing at all to do with the software itself.
>
> --
> CPython 3.2.2 | Windows NT 6.1.7601.17640 | Thunderbird 7.0

How annoying, here's how Ubuntu Software Center described it:

"Version: 2.7-6 (python2.7)"

And here it is in the Synaptic Package Manager:

"package: python2.7-minimal, installed version: 2.7-6"

At first I considered that this truncated name might be the
consequence of a Linux bug.  But looking up and down my list of
installed software in both Ubuntu Software Center and Synaptic, I can
find version names which extend arbitrarily, such as my wxPython
installation, for which the version number reads
"2.8.11.0-0ubuntu4.1".

Now my hypothesis is that someone manually enters the revision numbers
into the Linux database, and they made a typo.
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