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Re: new dh_python proposal



[Jakub Wilk, 2010-01-15]
> * Piotr Ożarowski <piotr@debian.org>, 2010-01-15, 11:58:
>> * maintainer script will byte compile .pyc files for all provided
>>  symlinks / private directories if given Python version is installed
>>  (dpkg -L output will be used to detect which files need byte compilation,
>>  directories without __init__.py file will be skipped),
>
> IOW, you want to skip modules that are not a part of a package? Why?

because both Joss and Matthias didn't like touching files from other
packages (although it would happen very rare).

Without dpkg -L, I'd also have to use postrm instead of prerm and thus
I'd have to take care of directories that dpkg refused to remove due to
__init__.pyc file.
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