Python independant binary extensions

[Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>]

Hi all,

I'm currently working on getting libxml2 (and later libxslt) to the new
policy, and actually noticed something interesting:
-rw-r--r-- root/root    273888 2006-06-29 22:02 ./usr/lib/python-support/python-libxml2/python2.3/libxml2mod.so
-rw-r--r-- root/root    273888 2006-06-29 22:02 ./usr/lib/python-support/python-libxml2/python2.4/libxml2mod.so

Same size AND same content.

After some discussions on #debian-python, I added stuff in debian/rules
so that if the binary extensions are identical, I'd replace the dup with
a symbolic link. I'm still building for all versions as suggested on
#d-p in case the python includes change in some ways.

Don't you think it'd be nice to add support to python-support and
python-central for that case ?

Cheers,

Mike

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