From 8c0b247a3848b1bc773cecf1160dc4aacbdd4ef8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ryan Dale Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2016 09:15:41 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] GUIDELINES: note about CONDA_PY in build string --- GUIDELINES.md | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/GUIDELINES.md b/GUIDELINES.md index 3cf2c412127e6..e35f91b66aafb 100644 --- a/GUIDELINES.md +++ b/GUIDELINES.md @@ -160,6 +160,10 @@ Examples: * confirm expected text in stderr: [weblogo](recipes/weblogo) +If a package depends on Python and has a custom build string, then +`py{{CONDA_PY}}` must be contained in that build string. Otherwise Python will +be automatically pinned to one minor version, resulting in dependency conflicts +with other packages. See [mapsplice](recipes/mapsplice) for an example of this. ### Metapackages