Re: RFS: python-gearman

[Oxan van Leeuwen <oxan@oxanvanleeuwen.nl>]

Hi Sandro,

On 10-02-11 22:17, Sandro Tosi wrote:
> Hi Oxan,
>
> On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 16:08, Oxan van Leeuwen<oxan@oxanvanleeuwen.nl>  wrote:
> > I've removed the XB-Python-Version from d/control. Just out of curiousity,
> > do you have any pointers to a current policy regarding these fields? I can
> > only find old ones that are a bit conflicting.
>
> the python policy: /usr/share/doc/python/python-policy.txt.gz od the
> other formats in the same dir

Yeah, the newest version of that file in the archive (2.2.6-10 from 
experimental) still recommends using ${python:Provides} and the 
XB-Python-Version line, so that's why I'm confused.

> > Btw, I get two warnings from
> > dpkg now when building the packages:
> > warning: package python-gearman: unused substitution variable
> > ${python:Versions}
> > warning: package python-gearman: unused substitution variable
> > ${python:Provides}
>
> don't worry about them: they say the variable is empty, so I'm not
> going to write a field with no value; that's fine, because if for some
> transition or so we need to populate those variables, they are already
> there, but for now, they serves nothing, so they are also harmless.

ok.

> Given I found nothing else to delay... I uploaded your package! Thanks
> for your work in Debian!

That's great! Let's see how things go in the archive :)

Thanks,
Oxan