Re: Packaging DendroPy for Debian - test suite failures
Hi Jeet,
On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 10:49:47AM -0400, Jeet Sukumaran wrote:
> Just pushed a revision to master that incorporates the below fix, i.e.,
> PAUP-based tests skipped unless an environmental variable explicitly set to
> the path of the PAUP binary.
Thanks a lot - this works nicely. I have two further remarks:
1. Please make sure you tag each release on Github. Github currently
knows only 4.0.0 while pypi.python.org has 4.0.2
2. The install procedure installs a script
/usr/bin/sumtrees.py
Could you please explain the role of this script?
The problem why I'm asking is the following: According to the Debian
Python policy we provide two packages: python-dendropy and
python3-dendropy containing the modules for Python and Python3. If
each package would contain /usr/bin/sumtrees.py the packages would
not be co-installable which would make no sense. My primitive hack
to work around this was to rename the file in the Python3 package to
sumtrees3.py which is a rather poor solution but worked just for the
development process here.
My favorite solution would be to put the script just to
/usr/share/doc/python-dendropy/examples/sumtrees.py and
/usr/share/doc/python3-dendropy/examples/sumtrees.py
respectively. Would you confirm that this script is rather an example
or is it really a tool that a user should call? In the latter case I
need to think about what to do as a proper solution. One way would be
to create an additional package named dendropy (without the python- in
front) that is a user oriented application depending from
python3-dendropy (since Debian is in favour of Python3) and provide
/usr/bin/sumtrees (without the .py extension since this is also Debian
policy to not force the language a script was written to the users).
Just let me know what role sumtrees would play according to your
opinion.
Kind regards
Andreas.
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