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Re: some issues with the proposals for the python packaging infrastructure



On Thu, 2006-02-02 at 23:02 +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Le jeudi 02 février 2006 à 21:09 +0100, Matthias Klose a écrit :
> > Josselin Mouette writes:
> > > There is still a situation we can improve easily, though: private
> > > modules. Currently, they have to migrate with python transitions, and
> > > this is only because of byte-compilation. The python-support way of
> > > doing things should still be fine for them, and it can reduce the number
> > > of packages to migrate at once, without complicating anyone's work.
> > 
> > that is, packages with private modules but without extension modules
> > and no modules in /usr/lib/python2.x. how many packages are this?
> 
> A first estimation by grepping through Contents-i386.gz gives 297
> packages. It certainly includes a lot of false positives, but gives the
> order of magnitude.

This sounds far too high. Are you including packages with private .py
files that are not modules? This is common, and one of the reasons I
said it was hard to gauge.
-- 
Joe Wreschnig <piman@sacredchao.net>

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