Re: Python independant binary extensions

[Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org>]

Le jeudi 29 juin 2006 à 22:09 +0200, Mike Hommey a écrit :
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm currently working on getting libxml2 (and later libxslt) to the new
> policy, and actually noticed something interesting:
> -rw-r--r-- root/root    273888 2006-06-29 22:02 ./usr/lib/python-support/python-libxml2/python2.3/libxml2mod.so
> -rw-r--r-- root/root    273888 2006-06-29 22:02 ./usr/lib/python-support/python-libxml2/python2.4/libxml2mod.so
> 
> Same size AND same content.
> 
> After some discussions on #debian-python, I added stuff in debian/rules
> so that if the binary extensions are identical, I'd replace the dup with
> a symbolic link. I'm still building for all versions as suggested on
> #d-p in case the python includes change in some ways.
> 
> Don't you think it'd be nice to add support to python-support and
> python-central for that case ?

Python-support already checks the md5sums of the files to install, but
it excludes the .so because files are moved to /usr/share and it would
violate the FHS. I also thought this would never happen.

I can add the handling of this case by putting them e.g.
in /usr/lib/python-support/python-foo/all/.
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