Re: Migrating unmanaged Python library extension from ‘python-central’ to ‘python-support’

[Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>]

Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au> writes:

> Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es> writes:
> 
> > In that case, just use debian/<pkgname>/usr/lib... instead, and skip
> > the dh_install step.
> 
> That does work, thank you.

I spoke too soon; ‘dh_pysupport’ fails to find the module.

The install process now shows the following output:

=====
# Manual installation, until upstream uses a build system
install -d debian/docutils-writer-manpage/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/docutils/writers
install -m 644 writers/manpage.py debian/docutils-writer-manpage/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/docutils/writers/
dh install
   dh_testroot
   dh_prep
   dh_installdirs  
   dh_auto_install 
   dh_install
   dh_installdocs  
   dh_installchangelogs
   dh_installexamples
   dh_installman   
   dh_installcatalogs
   dh_installcron  
   dh_installdebconf
   dh_installcatalogs
   dh_installemacsen
   dh_installifupdown
   dh_installinfo  
   dh_installinit  
   dh_installmenu  
   dh_installmime  
   dh_installmodules
   dh_installlogcheck
   dh_installlogrotate
   dh_installpam   
   dh_installppp   
   dh_installudev  
   dh_installwm
   dh_installxfonts
   dh_bugfiles
   dh_lintian
   dh_desktop
   dh_gconf
   dh_icons
   dh_perl
   dh_pysupport
   dh_scrollkeeper
   dh_usrlocal
   dh_link
   dh_compress
   dh_fixperms
=====

This doesn't seem to be sufficient for ‘dh_pysupport’, which gives no
output. The resulting binary package does not have the module at all.

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Ben Finney