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

[Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>]

On Tue, 20 Mar 2007, Ben Finney wrote:
> 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?

Move that to the install target as well and replace "$*" with the version
of the current python (`pyversions -dv`).

Cheers,
-- 
Raphaël Hertzog

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