Re: Bug#370833: New dh_python proposal
On Sun, 11 Jun 2006, Dafydd Harries wrote:
> Ar 10/06/2006 am 21:50, ysgrifennodd Raphael Hertzog:
> > I have written dh_pycentral and dh_pysupport which will take care of the
> > byte-compilation of the modules and integration with the respective tools.
> > Those should be integrated in their respective packages (after review by
> > their maintainer).
>
> Please no. Let's not have multiple solutions to the same problem. This wastes
> the time of each maintainer of a Python package who needs to work out whether
> they need to use dh_python, dh_pycentral, dh_pysupport or some combination of
> the three.
That's why we have a policy document, to say what they need to do and how
they can do it.
If you want your modules to be byte-compiled you need to use either
dh_pycentral or dh_pysupport.
Then, you will always have to use dh_python to generate the right
dependencies/provides/Python-Version field.
It really isn't *that* complicated.
> We are on the verge of having a greatly improved Python policy, having that
> policy implemented, and finally having Python 2.4 as default in Debian. This
> reluctance to settle on a standard way of installing modules is slowing our
> progress on all three fronts, and release time draws ever nearer.
What is slowing our progress is the refusal to let the time decide between
python-central and/or python-support. There's no consensus here and if you
need to make a choice, your only possibility is to request the technical
committee to make a choice. And the technical committee needs time as
well.
Cheers,
--
Raphaël Hertzog
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