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Re: Package names for docutils writers



On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 05:58:59PM +1100, Ben Finney wrote:
> Michael Schutte <michi@uiae.at> writes:
> 
> > It might make sense to wait a little longer for these uploads: Piotr
> > takes care of python-docutils’ conversion to python-support (from
> > -central)
> 
> I am waiting for ‘python-support’ 0.90 or later to reach ‘testing’
> before doing a similar switch.
> 
> > which means that we’ll have to switch as well.
> 
> Why is that? Python library packages installed using ‘python-central’
> and ‘python-support’ are able to coexist indistinguishably from the
> point of view of Python programs using them, no?

This is how I understand the problem: python-central writes to
/usr/lib/python*/site-packages, while python-support uses
/var/lib/python-support/python*.  Python finds docutils/__init__.py in
one directory and doesn’t look for modules starting with “docutils.”
anywhere else.

-- 
Michael Schutte <michi@uiae.at>

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