On Wed, 2006-06-28 at 20:09 +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le mardi 27 juin 2006 à 19:10 -0500, Joe Wreschnig a écrit : > > > How it's that different than patch the source packages to > > > s/python2.4/python/ as we do actually in some cases or replacing to > > > python2.3 when it isn't 2.4 compatible code? > > > > distutils rewrites scripts at installation time. Patching the source > > package will not work. > > > > http://docs.python.org/dist/node10.html > > How about patching distutils in Debian to get rid of this bug? While I'm all for patching stupid upstream behavior, it would be a pretty big API deviation. There's a relatively simple fix, which is using /usr/bin/python for the last run (or even just for an install_scripts run). -- Joe Wreschnig <piman@sacredchao.net>
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