On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 10:53:32PM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote:
>On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 09:25:41AM +0200, Magnus Therning wrote:
>> I have a silly little problem with getting Python's distutils to play
>> nice with Debian packaging. The library I am packaging (PyGGy) has a few
>> python files that double as executable scripts (in short they have '#!
>> /usr/bin/python' at the top of the file, while still being part of a
>> library, and they are executable, I am sure you know what I mean ;-).
>> Distutils insists on leaving them non-executable after a './setup.py
>> build'. However, since they contain that first line lintian complains
>> that they are scripts, but non-executable:
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>[...]
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>> Do I leave it them the way they are, or is there a nice way of resolving
>> this?
>
>Resolve the problem by making up your mind -- are they scripts (and
>hence need +x and quite possibly a home in /usr/bin) or are they
>library files, and hence no #! and a -x.
Well, they can't go into /usr/bin, they are part of the library.
However, for some reason upstream decided to put the python equivalent
of a main() in some of the files that make up the library.
The package I am trying to Debianise is PyGgy (bug #277567). It's a
lexer/parser for Python. Upstream decided that the parser package
(pyggy.pyggy) should double as an executable script (it creates parser
tables for all parser description files it's given on the command line).
This sort of thing isn't uncommon in Python, I believe.
Removing the executable flag would leave the Debianised package
different from the upstream package. I can't find anything in the Debian
Python Policy mentioning this "problem".
How do other maintainers do?
/M
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