Re: debhelper 7 and python-central

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

Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> writes:

> Ben Finney wrote:
> > Does anyone know debhelper better than me, and can suggest ways to
> > improve that package's current 'debian/rules' file to make better use
> > of debhelper 7 with 'python-central'?
> 
> python-central could include a dh sequence file, then you could use
> something like:
> 
> 	dh binary-indep --with python-central

That would be ideal, yes.

> I might need to add a Debian::Debhelper::Dh_Lib::remove_command to
> the sequence file interface, if it needs a way to actually remove
> the dh_pysupport call, rather than just adding a dh_pycentral call.

Sounds like a good feature. I'd vote for calling it 'skip_command'
though, with the resulting '--skip-command foo' interface.

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