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Re: Python executables inside libraries



On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 11:41:09PM +0200, Magnus Therning wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 10:53:32PM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote:
> >On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 09:25:41AM +0200, Magnus Therning wrote:
> >> I have a silly little problem with getting Python's distutils to play
> >> nice with Debian packaging. The library I am packaging (PyGGy) has a few
> >> python files that double as executable scripts (in short they have '#!
> >> /usr/bin/python' at the top of the file, while still being part of a
> >> library, and they are executable, I am sure you know what I mean ;-).
> >> Distutils insists on leaving them non-executable after a './setup.py
> >> build'. However, since they contain that first line lintian complains
> >> that they are scripts, but non-executable:
> >
> >[...]
> >
> >> Do I leave it them the way they are, or is there a nice way of resolving
> >> this?
> >
> >Resolve the problem by making up your mind -- are they scripts (and
> >hence need +x and quite possibly a home in /usr/bin) or are they
> >library files, and hence no #! and a -x.
> 
> Well, they can't go into /usr/bin, they are part of the library.
> However, for some reason upstream decided to put the python equivalent
> of a main() in some of the files that make up the library.
> 
> The package I am trying to Debianise is PyGgy (bug #277567). It's a
> lexer/parser for Python. Upstream decided that the parser package
> (pyggy.pyggy) should double as an executable script (it creates parser
> tables for all parser description files it's given on the command line).
> This sort of thing isn't uncommon in Python, I believe.

Would you reasonably want to execute those scripts in and of themselves from
another program?  If yes, then +x.  If not, s/^#!.*$//.

- Matt



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