On Fri, Feb 08, 2013 at 10:00:47AM +0800, Chow Loong Jin wrote: > On 07/02/2013 09:16, Steve Langasek wrote: > >> > Debian's Python build helper tools are still breeding like rabbits, > >> > there is a new one in experimental. I guess because the current ones > >> > dh_python2/dh_python3 don't handle packages that contain only code > >> > that runs on both python2 and python3 without changes. > > pybuild is a necessary adjunct to dh_python3 that provides the dh(1) build > > system integration, not an alternate build helper tool. I don't think > > "breeding like rabbits" is anywhere near the mark. > Well, relative to other languages, I think Python's had the most changes > with regards to build helper tools -- there was dh_pycentral, and > dh_pysupport in the past which did more or less the same thing in > different ways, and now we have dh_python2, and dh_python3. Yes, but this is not proliferation. There's one standard tool for python2 - dh_python2 - and one for python3 - dh_python3. (The languages have sufficiently different build-time and install-time requirements that it makes sense to have one for each.) > In contrast, Mono stuff have only had the dh_cli* set of things, and Java > only had the javahelper bunch of things. Heh. No, there's javahelper, and maven-debian-helper, and maven-repo-helper, and I'm pretty sure there was another one for another repo system besides maven. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slangasek@ubuntu.com vorlon@debian.org
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