Using python-central for pure-Python package (was: dpkg-gencontrol: warning: unknown substitution variable ${python:Depends})

[Ben Finney <bignose+hates-spam@benfinney.id.au>]

Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> writes:

> On Tue, 20 Mar 2007, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> > Nope, dh_clean -k is fine. It's just that installation should
> > start after calling it, not in the build target.
>
> Installation currently happens in "install-pythonX.Y" which is
> called before the "install" target since it's a dependency. Thus
> dh_clean -k removes what's installed.

I see what you're saying now.

> Since the package is "arch: all" the python setup.py call should
> simply be placed in the install target and the targets
> install-pythonX.Y should be removed.

Part of that target is to rename the generated egg-info directory;
Setuptools creates it as 'foo-N.M-pyX.Y.egg-info', but the
python-central documentation seems to indicate this should be renamed
to 'foo.egg-info':

    # install only one Egg dir (without python's version number)
    mv debian/${PACKAGE_NAME}/usr/lib/python$*/site-packages/${MODULE_NAME}-${DEB_UPSTREAM_VERSION}-py$*.egg-info \
            debian/${PACKAGE_NAME}/usr/lib/python$*/site-packages/${MODULE_NAME}.egg-info

How can this be done properly without knowing the exact name
(including Python version) that Setuptools will create?

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