Re: PEP 345 - request for comments
On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 04:03:32PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Le mercredi 18 novembre 2009 à 10:02 +0100, Wolodja Wentland a écrit :
> > PEP 345 [1] describes version 1.2 of the PKG-INFO file that will be
> > shipped with Python distributions in the future.
>
> > Requires-External: C
> > Requires-External: libpng (>=1.5)
>
> > Would Debian maintainers use this field to extract dependencies of a
> > Python package that have to be handled by the system's package manager?
>
> No, it is clearly not possible to automate such a thing.
>
> You should use pkg-config, possibly extending it with Python fields,
> instead of reinventing the wheel.
>
> > Does the proposed format match your requirements? Are there any changes
> > your would like to see incorporated, so that this field eases your
> > packaging work?
>
> If upstream maintainers update this field correctly, it would ease
> packaging work, but not automate it. With the proposal as is, it is
> strictly similar to making mandatory the documentation of dependencies.
That is indeed how distutils-sig consensus currently sees that field,
at least in my understanding.
Regards
Floris
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