Hello Pythoneers, another version of the dh_purepython script is online at http://people.debian.org/~calvin/purepython/. It provides support for Section 2.2.3 of the Python Policy which adresses version-independent Python modules. I would be pleased to hear any comments and/or suggestions from you. In short: to use dh_purepython, your package must have 1) Depends: python or if you require a specific minimal version X.Y: Depends: python (>= X.Y) 2) If you use Python Distutils to package your module (which is recommended), you must have Build-Depends: pythonX.Y-dev XXX It should not be mandatory to build-depend on all pythonX.Y-dev versions. But you should test your module with multiple Python versions. 3) installed all .py files into /usr/lib/python/site-packages/. 4) no conflict with future Python versions. It is not supported that your package works with Python 2.1, but not with 2.2 and above. A pythonX.Y package must have 1) a postinst script to byte-compile all previously installed packages who use dh_purepython 2) a prerm script to remove byte-compiled files from all previously installed packages who use dh_purepyton I have untested scripts python.postinst and python.prerm for this. Greetings, Bastian
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