On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 10:02:16AM +0200, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > Josselin Mouette wrote: > > Le mardi 08 septembre 2009 à 19:06 +0200, Piotr Ożarowski a écrit : > >>> Since the build-dep approach should have agreement from all the helper > >>> maintainers before it moves forward, I think it would be a good first > >>> step to mark pyversions deprecated (initially in favor of XS-* and > >>> later in favor of the build depends approach) and leave it up to > >>> package maintainers if they care to change in the near term. > >> how about using build dependencies *if* pyversions and XS-P-V are not > >> set and removing support of these fields once all packages will > >> use the new approach? > > I think that’s the most efficient approach indeed. For that, we need to > > either: > > * patch /usr/bin/pyversions to use them instead > > * or introduce a new script that does this, and get cdbs and dh7 > > to use it instead > If there is really a consensus about that, it would not be too hard to implement > it in dh directly. Architecturally, it looks more appropriate for pyversions to examine the build-depends, not debhelper. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slangasek@ubuntu.com vorlon@debian.org
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