Hi,
with debhelper >= 7.3.5 it is possible to build Python extensions and -dbg
packages, as long as they come with a distutils/setuptools based setup.py.
By default dh will call setup.py with all requested Python versions, starting
with /usr/bin/python aka. the default Python version (if it was requested to
build with it). Then dh will build with all other requested Python versions, if
they're installed. This ensures that there is no need to build depend on
python-all(-dev) if you don't need to. Of course you need to take care of your
build-dependencies, dh won't help you here, at it won't fail to build if there
are some missing.
For all requested Python versions dh will also look into debian/control to
figure out if you build-depend on a python.*-dbg package (yes, python-dbg and
python-all-dbg will be recognized, too...) which installs the python dbg
interpreter in this version. If an according build-dependency was found, the dbg
extensions will be built. As they'll end up in debian/tmp together with the
normal build, you'll have to write proper debian/package.install files to put
them into the right package.
Let me know if you find any problems.
Cheers,
Bernd
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