Re: Advice needed on howto take care about scikits.*

[Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org>]

Le lundi 29 mars 2010 à 11:17 -0400, Yaroslav Halchenko a écrit :
> I want to provide packages for few scikits.* projects from
> http://projects.scipy.org/scikits
> 
> e.g. python-scikits-learn, python-scikits-statsmodels
> 
> There is close to nothing in common among all those scikits, BUT they
> all require residing under scikits/ toplevel, so they all define
> __init__.py with 
> 
> __import__('pkg_resources').declare_namespace(__name__)
> 
> so clearly they would conflict if all ship this file.

Don’t they work correctly if you ship an empty __init__.py file instead?
(I have no idea what declare_namespace does.)

If so, you can rely on python-support creating that file automatically.

Otherwise, I guess the only approach is indeed to make a Debian-specific
package to ship that file.

Cheers,
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