Hi Jay, On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 09:42:24AM -0400, Jay Berkenbilt wrote: > I'm having problems with one of my packages that includes a python > module. The package is vips. I am not a python person, so this may be > simple. > The last time I built the package, there were several module binary > files that got installed appropriately. For example: > % dpkg --listfiles python-vipscc| grep vmaskmodule.a > /usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/vipsCC/vmaskmodule.a > /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/vipsCC/vmaskmodule.a Well, to start off, this doesn't look correct at all. Python modules are never .a files; these appear to be spurious static builds of the modules because you're using a non-pythonic build system that assumes it's appropriate to build both shared and static versions of "libraries". But these are not libraries, they're DSOs; you should not ship these .a files in your package. > Now when I rebuild the package with no changes at all, I get something > like this: > % dpkg --contents python-vipscc_7.34.2-1_amd64.deb| grep vmaskmodule.a > -rw-r--r-- root/root 1127858 2013-09-15 09:33 ./usr/share/pyshared/vipsCC/vmaskmodule.a > lrwxrwxrwx root/root 0 2013-09-15 09:33 ./usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/vipsCC/vmaskmodule.a -> ../../../../share/pyshared/vipsCC/vmaskmodule.a > Okay, this example shows a newer version of the package, but when I > rebuild the exact same version as before, I get the same result. This looks like a change in the python helpers, yes, probably to handle moving/symlinking of files other than .py or .so that some python modules include and expect to be present in their directory. So this is a change from whitelist handling of files with a .py extension, to blacklist handling of files with a .so extension. The .a files are ending up in the "wrong" place because dh_python isn't treating them specially... because they're not special for python, they're extraneous files to be deleted. In sum, this is a preexisting bug in python-vips that is just manifesting differently with the new version of dh_python2. HTH, -- 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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