[SCM] Debian package checker branch, master, updated. 2.2.12-14-g1c856ae
The following commit has been merged in the master branch:
commit 1c856ae6bcf81f1f3fb229712f48afaf728dd4d1
Author: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
Date: Mon Jun 22 10:19:48 2009 -0700
Update description for third-party-package-in-python-dir
diff --git a/checks/files.desc b/checks/files.desc
index 34aba67..2592ca2 100644
--- a/checks/files.desc
+++ b/checks/files.desc
@@ -489,11 +489,12 @@ Info: Debian packages should not install into <tt>/srv</tt>. The
Tag: third-party-package-in-python-dir
Severity: normal
Certainty: certain
-Info: According to <a href="http://www.python.org/doc/essays/packages.html";>
- <tt>http://www.python.org/doc/essays/packages.html</tt></a>, third-party
- python packages should install their files in
- <tt>/usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages</tt>. All other directories in
- <tt>/usr/lib/python1.5</tt> are for use by the core python packages.
+Info: Third-party Python packages should install their files in
+ <tt>/usr/lib/python<i>VERSION</i>/site-packages</tt> for Python versions
+ before 2.6 and <tt>/usr/lib/python<i>VERSION</i>/dist-packages</tt>
+ for Python 2.6 and later. All other directories in
+ <tt>/usr/lib/python<i>VERSION</i></tt> are for use by the core python
+ packages.
Tag: perl-module-in-core-directory
Severity: important
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index bcbe589..488296a 100755
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ lintian (2.2.13) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
on libtool. Thanks, Kurt Roeckx. (Closes: #534134)
+ [RA] Fix typo in *-contains-ht-tags-file description. Patch from
Peter Pentchev. (Closes: #534218)
- * checks/files:
+ * checks/files{,.desc}:
+ [RA] Allow non-core Python packages to install files into
/usr/lib/python*/dist-packages, the extension location for Python
2.6 and later. Thanks, Julian Andres Klode. (Closes: #534212)
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