debhelper for python-central, problems with prerm/postinst (was: Python modules not installed correctly with pycentral)

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

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Vincent Bernat <bernat@luffy.cx> writes:

> OoO En cette nuit striée d'éclairs du lundi 07 janvier 2008, vers 02:06,
> Ben Finney <bignose+hates-spam@benfinney.id.au> disait:
> 
> > Should the default placement of 'dh_pycentral' be changed so that
> > 'pycentral' is run early enough for programs in the package that
> > depend on the installed modules?
> 
> Well, if you can change the order for postinst, you will get wrong order
> in prerm.
> 
> See:
>  http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=386970
>  http://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2006/10/msg00073.html
> 
> This is not specific to cdbs in fact, so it applies to you too.

Hmm, that's a wrinkle I hadn't thought of. Thank you for showing me
that discussion.

So, how do Python-language packagers work around this bug currently?

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