Re: Move to python 2.4 / Changing the packaging style for python packages
On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 08:17:17AM +0200, Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 01:49:26AM +0200, Matthias Klose <doko@cs.tu-berlin.de> wrote:
> > - The current pythonX.Y-foo packages having modules in the python
> > library path are collapsed into one package python-foo. Binary
> > independent modules are made available for the python versions
> > currently supported in the distribution. Binary dependent
> > extensions are put for all supported python versions into the
> > same python-foo package. The overhead for a maybe unused
> > extension module was accepted in favour of a reduction of
> > packages, the removed need to rebuild a package for a change
> > of the default python version and less NEW processing when
> > adding support for a new pythonX.Y version.
>
> Will /usr/lib/python2.x/site-packages be ignored by dh_shlibdeps as part
> of this master plan ?
Which would be stupid, Mike, thank you. Don't sent mail when you're
still not awake.
Anyways, there would be a problem with python native extensions linked
against libpython. They would get the shlib dependencies on python2.x
packages.
Mike
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