Re: new dh_python proposal
[Piotr Ożarowski, 2010-01-15]
> [Luca Falavigna, 2010-01-15]
> > Piotr Ożarowski ha scritto:
> > > byte compilation will not fail as it was already tested at build time,
> >
> > What about cases when code is no longer supported in a given Python
> > release? I think of "except YourFavouriteException, e:" code with 3.1
> > (but feel free to use a better example), byte-compilation will fail.
>
> then package will FTBFS and maintainer will have to skip this version in
> debian/rules. After a while RMs will remove such package from Debian
> archive (they'll watch how XB-Python-Version is changing after rebuilds)
oh, you mean runtime problems that weren't detected at build time
(byte compilation and tests didn't fail) - well, maintainer will have to
detect this and fix debian/rules
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