Re: Executables in pydl

[Ole Streicher <olebole@debian.org>]

Vincent Prat <vinceprat@free.fr> writes:
> I am currently working on packaging pydl, and the build system produces some
> executables using entry points defined in setup.cfg.
>
> The problem is that for each entry point, two executables are produced, one
> for Python 2, and the other for Python 3, but with the same name and location
> (/usr/bin), thus creating a conflict if both packages are installed.
> I see several possibilities to solve the issue:
> - remove these executables, since users could use directly the libraries
> - rename them (e.g. compute_templates-python2 and -python3)
> - mark the two packages as conflicting, but I do not think this is a good
> idea.
>
> What is your opinion?

At the end it depends on how important they are. From the package name,
I would think that they are not needed at all, so I would remove
them. If they are needed somehow, I would put them (in their python-3
variant) into a separate package, since from a python package, one would
usually not expect executables.

But ou may also ask on the Python mailing list, they may have more glue
about that :-)

Cheers

Ole